Government urged to increase budget allocation to Ministry of Health
Some of stakeholders who graced the 46th Annual nurses conference.
By: Our Reporter
Stakeholders in the health sector have called on the government to consider allocating more funds to it as it caters the most crucial factor in humanity.
Through an increased budget, it is possible for experts in the health field to intensify research and be able to manufacture human vaccines and drugs.
During a Nurses National Conference held in Kakamega, the stakeholders led by the Coalition for Health Research and Development (CHREAD) further called on the government to actualize the Abuja Declaration that called for allocation of at least 15 per cent of the country’s budget to health.
Through the African Union, the member states promised to abide by the declaration though few have met the threshold.
Through James Kamau, CHREAD championed for research in health saying it was the easiest gateway to achieving Universal Health Coverage in Kenya and Eastern Africa region.
He told the nurses that the country need to start manufacturing human Vaccines and drugs as one way of making them readily and cheaply available.
As he used the platform to lobby the government to increase funding for health research, he specifically called for Ministry of Trade to liaise with other African Ministers in a bid to coordinate marketing of the manufactured products within the African states.
The theme for the conference was, “In Nurses and Midwives, Respect Rights to secure”
The conference championed for investment in Nurses and Midwives Human Resource, to have adequate, Safe Lives
Nurses have the right to be trusted by the public with different speakers saying they have the right to be respected for their own knowledge and right to practice.
This, they do according to professional standards in bid to achieve World Health Organization Universal Health Coverage objective of access to health care. Nurses are at all levels of
of health care in the country.
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