Days after doctors called off their three-month-long strike, Kenya’s Health Minister Cleopha Mailu has visited patients and staff at Kenyatta National Hospital in the capital, Nairobi.

According to Ceoafrica, Medical workers have been returning to work over the past few days and hundreds of patients have been seen.

Mr Mailu denied claims that foreign doctors were favoured over Kenyans in new hiring. He said Kenyan doctors who had not been employed by the government hospitals had chosen not to be hired. He said more medical personnel were expected from neighbouring countries.

Tanzania on Saturday agreed to send 500 doctors to Kenya.

About 5,000 doctors at Kenya's public hospitals halted work in December to demand better pay and conditions; the strike ended last Tuesday.

There has been no word on when the Tanzanian doctors will arrive in Kenya or how long they will stay. But Tanzania's Health Minister Umy Mwalimu has said the doctors will go to Kenya "as soon as possible".