The national government has deployed 35 medics in Kitui county to alleviate acute shortage of medical personnel in the region.
The newly hired medics include 27 doctors and eight pharmacists who will be deployed to all the medical facilities in the eight sub-counties, governor Charity Ngilu said while receiving the personnel at Kitui Referral hospital.
”The doctors will not only improve medical service delivery, but also enable the residents to get proper medication at easy reach as there will be a doctor in every major health centre in the county,” said Ngilu.
The governor admitted that medical services in most health facilities were in limbo due to shortage of health practitioners, but intervention by the national government will improve the services.
