President Uhuru Kenyatta will today afternoon preside over the start of a 100-day Accelerated National Immunization Campaign and send-off of specialist doctors from Cuba to Counties at the Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (KEMSA) Warehouse in Industrial Area, Nairobi.
During the function, the President is expected to highlight the various efforts being made by the Government towards the realization of the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) which is a key deliverable in the President’s Big 4 Development Agenda.
In recent years, the Government has enhanced investments in the health sector in a sustained effort to ensure that all Kenyans have access to affordable and quality healthcare services.
At the core of the Government’s renewed approach to healthcare provision is preventive services which make sustained immunization programmes, provision of adequate medical equipment and other forms of primary medicine key interventions.
MANOAH ESIPISU, MBS.