Murang’a Receives A Donation Of Nutrient-Rich Supplements For Children

By Bernard Mun­yao and Anjil­wa Fran­cis

The Murang’a Coun­ty gov­ern­ment has received a dona­tion of nutri­ent-rich sup­ple­ments from Irun­gu Nyak­era Foun­da­tion to sup­port the health of local chil­dren.

Deliv­er­ing the dona­tion to gov­er­nor Irun­gu Kang’ata, the founder of the foun­da­tion, Irun­gu Nyak­era who is imme­di­ate for­mer chair­per­son of KEMSA said the dona­tion will be sup­plied to dif­fer­ent dis­pen­saries across the coun­ty to help in fight against mal­nu­tri­tion among chil­dren.

Nyak­era also stat­ed that addi­tion­al dona­tions, includ­ing med­i­cine and beds, will be made, in an effort to bol­ster health ser­vices and assist in mak­ing pre­scribed drugs avail­able at the hos­pi­tals in Murang’a.

“As a foun­da­tion we will part­ner with the devolved admin­is­tra­tion with the aim to have a 100 per cent of drug avail­abil­i­ty at the local hos­pi­tals and this is why we have donat­ed the 177 car­tons of med­i­cines rich in nutri­ents which will be dis­trib­uted to dif­fer­ent dis­pen­saries in the coun­ty,” he said.

Nyak­era who also vied for the Murang’a Coun­ty gov­er­nor­ship in 2022, said he is ready to work with the admin­is­tra­tion of Kang’ata so as to assist in var­i­ous pro­grammes that are meant to uplift wel­fare of the local res­i­dents.

“I am pleased with the var­i­ous projects being imple­ment­ed by the coun­ty gov­ern­ment in the sec­tors of edu­ca­tion, health, agri­cul­ture, and econ­o­my among oth­ers. Am ready to sup­port where pos­si­ble to see the lives of the locals are bet­ter,” he added.

Nyak­era also urged the coun­ty admin­is­tra­tion to engage more and sup­port tea and cof­fee coop­er­a­tives say­ing by doing this, it will increase the county’s rev­enue and improve the liveli­hoods of its res­i­dents.

“Murang’a is an agrar­i­an region and the coun­ty gov­ern­ment has done an amaz­ing job in pri­or­i­tiz­ing farm­ers’ needs through pro­vi­sion of sub­si­dies and pro­grammes such as Inua Mkuli­ma that ben­e­fit them immense­ly. How­ev­er, we still need to do a lot more by engag­ing and sup­port­ing cof­fee and tea coop­er­a­tives,” he remarked.

On his part, gov­er­nor Kang’ata not­ed that the coun­ty is still in the pilot­ing phase of telemed­i­cine and is fac­ing tech­ni­cal chal­lenges laud­ing the sup­port from the Nyak­era Foun­da­tion in boost­ing deliv­ery of health care.

Kang’ata said he will bring on board oth­er lead­ers from the coun­ty to sup­port ideas and areas of their pro­fes­sion cit­ing the case of Nyak­era who is a pro­fes­sion­al in finance.

“As we are work­ing to tack­le the hitch­es in the pro­vi­sion of telemed­i­cine ser­vices, my admin­is­tra­tion will bring on board experts to ensure smooth oper­a­tion of the pro­gramme,” he not­ed.

The gov­er­nor con­tin­ued, “We are work­ing to ensure drugs reach res­i­dents at their near­est dis­pen­saries and with the expe­ri­ence Nyak­era attained when he worked at KEMSA, he will be in a bet­ter posi­tion to help us in deliv­er­ies of drugs to our med­ical facil­i­ties.”

Kang’a­ta empha­sized that his gov­ern­ment is ready to work with all lead­ers for effi­cient ser­vice deliv­ery and called for com­bined efforts towards ini­tia­tives that pos­i­tive­ly impact the peo­ple of Murang’a.

By bring­ing in oth­er polit­i­cal lead­ers, Kang’ata said he will have a broad-based admin­is­tra­tion say­ing their con­tri­bu­tion of the lead­ers will help devel­op the coun­ty.

“We want to mir­ror the nation­al gov­ern­ment by tak­ing into account all polit­i­cal tal­ents in the coun­ty,” he added.