Level Two, Three and Level Four public hospitals in Nairobi are now expected to offer better services to Nairobians after Governor Johnson Sakaja flagged off equipment worth Sh58million.
The equipment and medical supplies include delivery beds, digital portable X-ray machines, ECG machines, patient monitors, dialysis machines, vaccines, refrigerators, nebulizers, and other key equipment aimed at improving the diagnosis and treatment of diseases in health facilities.
Sakaja stated that the equipment will help reduce the burden of Nairobian Healthcare Professionals in the diagnosis and it will make their tasks more efficient.
He added that the County is in the process of upgrading level four hospitals and a new theatre is being constructed at the Kianda 42, a Level Four Hospital in Kibera constituency with the one in Mutuini Hospital being operationalized before the close of 2023.
“Our administration has continued to ensure that the hospitals have medicine and medical equipment. This is an affirmation of my promise to provide top-notch healthcare to Nairobians.” Sakaja stated.
In March this year, governor Sakaja flagged off health Products and Supplies from the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (Kemsa) worth Sh244million which was distributed to a total of one hundred and eighteen facilities within Nairobi County.
The distribution of the consignment was actualised by the negotiations that Sakaja and Kemsa had to ensure the settlement of Sh185.1million that Nairobi county owed Kemsa.
Previously, Nairobi had an acute shortage of drugs and equipment in the public hospitals because Nairobi County and Kemsa had been embroiled in a tussle over debt since 2017 when they had been last supplied.
In 2018, retired President Uhuru Kenyatta and the then Health CS Cecil Kariuki had to intervene for the supply to resume.
The debt owed to KEMAS by Nairobi then stood at Sh300 million.
In October 2020, Nairobi City County paid Sh166. million to the agency to offset part of the then Sh353 million debt.
Out of the paid debt, Sh120 million ways to go towards settling the debt while Sh46 million was for a fresh supply of medicine to county health facilities.
