{"id":177486,"date":"2024-07-29T07:38:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T05:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-beware-of-con-men-kenya-medical-training-college-warns-as-fake-admission-letters-circulate\/"},"modified":"2024-07-29T07:38:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T05:38:28","slug":"kenya-beware-of-con-men-kenya-medical-training-college-warns-as-fake-admission-letters-circulate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-beware-of-con-men-kenya-medical-training-college-warns-as-fake-admission-letters-circulate\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: &#8216;Beware of Con Men,&#8217; Kenya Medical Training College Warns As Fake Admission Letters Circulate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\"><strong>IN SHORT:<\/strong> While admission to the Kenyan medical college is competitive, online claims that bribes can be paid to circumvent the official process are false.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/kmtc.ac.ke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kenya Medical Training College<\/a> (KMTC) is a government institution that trains medical professionals to serve local, regional and international markets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Admission is competitive. In this context, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/898952726898855\/posts\/7566958923431502\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">admission letters<\/a> supposedly from the college have been circulating on Facebook, with prospective students required to pay KSh5,000 (about US$40)&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407260443.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IN SHORT: While admission to the Kenyan medical college is competitive, online claims that bribes can be paid to circumvent the official process are false. The Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) is a government institution that trains medical professionals to serve local, regional and international markets. Admission is competitive. In this context, admission letters supposedly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":177487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[17153,258,256,25546,36904,16348,20930,6891,4688,430,9349,7417,6801,257,254,4287,6853],"class_list":["post-177486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-admission","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-beware","tag-circulate","tag-college","tag-con","tag-fake","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-letters","tag-medical","tag-men","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-training","tag-warns"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}