Residents of Bomet County expect improved access to quality healthcare following the arrival of pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical supplies worth Sh37 million from the Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (KEMSA). The delivery was officially received and distributed at the Bomet Green Stadium on Tuesday.
Bomet County Health Chief Officer, Felix Langat, led the reception of the medical supplies, highlighting that the shipment marks the second batch of their order from KEMSA.
Laikipia County governor, Joshua Irungu, has assured residents of his administration’s commitment to ensure no one is denied services at any hospital in the county even as the transition to a new medical insurance scheme is ongoing. This comes after the government rolled out the Social Health Authority (SHA) countrywide replacing the now defunct National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF). Irungu said that plans are underway to have members of the public sensitized on the new shift to ensure they not only understand its operations but also enroll for the new insurance cover. He noted that patients seeking dialysis services and those with lifestyle diseases such as diabetes and hypertension do not have cause to worry as the SHA will cater for their medical needs.He spoke while on his visit at the Nyahururu County and Referral Hospital Wednesday where he led the registration exercise and assured citizens that healthcare services will continue uninterrupted.
The founder and director of Grasten Academy and Juste Bar and Restaurant in Witeithie in Juja of Kiambu County, Mwalimu Stephen Waweru Ngaroga passed on at KNH last Wednesday after ailing and developing multiple complications. Family and friends started meeting at his Juste Bar and Restaurant in Witeithie yesterday to plan on how to raise over KSh4 million hospital bill. Family, relatives, friends and well-wishers have been urged to help the family of the late career educationist in prayers and kind at this trying moment.
The Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) has begun collecting views and comments from stakeholders on its proposed tariffs review which will affect import handling, primary storage and the truck loading. Energy and Petroleum Regulation Authority (EPRA) Director General Daniel Kiptoo said that Kenya Pipeline Company manages several common user petroleum logistic facilities that are crucial to the storage, transportation and distribution of petroleum products across Kenya, these include the pipeline network, the storage depots, the jetties and the loading terminals.
“KPC charges the tariffs for the usage of its infrastructure, and these tariffs are reviewed and approved every three years through a public participatory process facilitated by EPRA,” explained Kiptoo. Speaking in Nairobi on Wednesday during a consultative workshop on the review of KPC tariffs, Kiptoo said that under the Energy Act of Kenya 2019, EPRA is mandated to ensure fair and reasonable tariffs for KPC services.
The Ministry of Health in collaboration with the Department of Health in Busia County has embarked on mass polio vaccination with a view to reducing its negative effects including deaths among children. The exercise which will be carried out in two phases targets to vaccinate 308,000 children aged 10 years and below. Speaking during the launch of the exercise at Ebenezer Academy on Wednesday, Busia County Expanded Programme on Immunisation Logistician, Juliet Kilima said that the disease is communicable hence the need to observe hygiene among children.
Treasury CS John Mbadi has challenged governors to reduce or disband some offices in their governments as a way of addressing the ballooning wage bill. Mbadi noted that most of the new county bosses are currently grappling with the high wage bill which he attributed to the new offices created to replicate those in the national government.
Deputy Speaker Sen Kathuri Murungi has expressed concern over the persistent banditry attacks in Igembe North Constituency, Meru County, which recently resulted in the deaths of a local resident and two police reservists in Amwathi Ward. Despite repeated assurances from the Ministry of Interior and National Administration, the region remains engulfed in violence, disrupting peace and security and leaving the community in distress.
The Deputy Speaker has called on the Senate Committee on National Security, Defence, and Foreign Relations to explain why these attacks continue unabated, despite efforts by the Ministry to restore peace. He urged the Committee to determine whether the Ministry has evaluated the broader impact of the attacks on residents’ lives, considering the social, economic, cultural and political repercussions of the ongoing violence.
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