Cuban doctors from next year will start offering health care services right in people’s homes, Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe said.
The CS called on county governments to adopt the Cuban family physicians and facilitate them to be visiting people in their homes and offer their services there.
“In their country, the physicians are not used to working from a hospital but visit homes,” Mutahi Kagwe said.
The CS health is calling upon on the county governments to provide the Cuban doctors with vehicles and mobile clinics so that they start visiting patients’ homes.
“This is to make sure that instead of asking people to come to health care, we take health care to the people. I urge you to support the system, allocate money for it so that we can transform the way we provide healthcare,” said Mutahi Kagwe.
Besides, Kagwe asked the county government to ensure that money paid to health facilities either by NHIF or direct payment is retained in those facilities.
By the government doing this, it will ensure the hospitals have essential drugs permanently and all the time if the government can supplement the payments.
By Christabel Airo
