Health Care
The government is committed and determined to realize the constitutional right to healthcare by delivering a Universal Health Coverage (UHC) system as follows:
- Provide National Health Insurance Fund coverage for all Kenyans without exclusion in the policy of “Leaving No one Behind”;
- Employ and initiate payment for community health workers who shall form part of the Primary Health Care system;
- Prioritise employment of 20,000 healthcare workers- doctors, nurses, clinical officers, laboratory technologists, and physiotherapists, among others, to bridge the gap according to WHO recommendations of 23 HC per 10,000 population;
- Set up an emergency medical treatment fund to cater for an emergency, cancer treatment, and referrals;
- Establish a commission for the management of human resources for health without undermining devolution;
- Set aside Sh50 billion for Kenya Association of Retired Officers medical schemes;
- The government shall harmonize the terms of employment for all healthcare workers in the spirit of equal work for equal pay;
- Integrate preventive and promotive services/ establish MDT (a primary healthcare approach) as envisioned in our Afya Bora Mashinani;
- Set aside a seed deposit amount of Sh100 billion into co-funding the strategic programs for HIV, tuberculosis, blood transfusion, malaria, family planning, and reproductive health;
- Ring-fence funds for healthcare from facility improvement funds to allocations from the Treasury in collaboration with county governments;
- Bringing the cost of treatment down, (drugs, consultation, laboratory services, imaging services.);
- The government will build up our supply chain management system (KEMSA) to ensure efficiency and accountability in the medical supplies to all health facilities;
- Integrate Information Communication and Technology systems to enhance telemedicine and health management information systems. Immediately operationalize a National Health Information System for Electronic Health Records (EHR) to standardize and ensure the portability of patient data.