Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua now says operations at the Kenya Medical Supplies Agency have been revamped and streamlined to make the distribution of medicine to health facilities efficient and effective.
“We have streamlined the operations at Kemsa and as of today, medical supplies are available to the counties. No county can claim they have not received medical supplies from Kemsa,” he said.
Gachagua said the government focused on dealing with inefficiency and poor service delivery at the agency over the last year, adding that the efforts had been fruitful.
Gachagua said streamlining of Kemsa was among a raft of measures rolled out in the health sector in a bid to improve services as promised before taking office last year.
The DP made the remarks at the 92nd Kenya Medical Training College graduation event held at Kasarani Stadium in Nairobi, on Thursday.
He cited the employment of the 100, 000 community health promoters as another big achievement that would improve service delivery in the sector and boost the race towards Universal Health Coverage.
“There are several gains the government has achieved in the health sector in the last year. The Afya Nyumbani Programme is one of them and through it, 100, 000 community health promoters have been enlisted and equipped,” the DP said.
Additionally, the DP said the training of medical professionals locally was highly regarded globally saying the developed countries were seeking their services.
“We have outstanding requests from the United Kingdom and Germany for healthcare providers,” he said.
Gachagua also said they will look into enhancing the HELB Capitation for KMTC students to ensure they study without financial challenges.