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Bungoma allocates 60 million to health information to boost UHC

Bungoma CEC for health and sanitation Dr. Andrew Wamalwa has revealed that the government has allocated Ksh. 60 million towards health information as a way of boosting Universal health coverage for all.

 

Universal Health Coverage Day (UHC Day) is commemorated on 12 December every year. It aims to celebrate the progress towards health for all and raise awareness on the need for strong and resilient health systems in achieving universal health coverage. Dr. Wamalwa said that investing in the health information will ensure that health officials get all the health information from the grassroots saying that it will also help in making decisions.

 

The CEC further said that the budget will also realize all health facilities in Bungoma County connected to one server where information will be relayed. “This server will play an important role in collecting information across health facilities so that my department can know where the problem is and how can be tackled,” he said. He pointed out that the County has distributed smartphones and cancer screening kits to all Community health promoters (CHP’s) noting that the digital gadgets will help them by submitting health information from the community adding that the CHP’s plays an integral role in cancer screening.

 

Wamalwa noted that to strengthen Primary Health Care (PHC) more, Bungoma governor Kenneth Lusaka launched his ‘Lusaka Care’ in March this year that saw Bungoma get a health caravan that is moving around areas where the locals do not have access to quality healthcare services. “Through governor Lusaka care program, we have a caravan that is moving around providing health services to the locals,” he said, adding that Bungoma has also adopted the Vital Sign Profile (VSP) tool to help track the commitments made by the governor.

 

He said that the VSP tool was designed by the World Health Organization (WHO) saying that in Kenya, Bungoma is the first county to adopt it. “This tool will help us track ourselves in terms of our service delivery and what governor Lusaka promised to do to boost primary health care (PHC),”

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