Kisii County Government is committed to improving the area of health services, in both preventive and curative services.
Governor James Ongwae said in preventive healthcare services, the county has put in place measures to ensure our people are free of preventable illnesses like diarrhea, cholera and amoebiasis.
The Governor encouraged residents to embrace good dietary habits adding that all County Public Health Officers have been trained on Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) where all families are encouraged to have latrines or toilets.
In the curative healthcare, Ongwae said his administration has invested in improvement of facilities starting with the Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital.
He said the county has put in place a state of the art 16-slice Computerized Tomography (CT) Scan machine and a digital x-ray machine, a well-equipped laboratory, theatres, four dialysis machines, a High Dependency Unit (HDU), an emergency ambulatory service, an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) as well as outpatient and inpatient services.
Ongwae said the facilities have had a tremendous impact in the health sector adding that over the past five months the hospital has performed over 900 CT scans while the renal unit has handled over 1200 kidney dialysis sessions for patients.
Ongwae asked the national assembly to reconsider their decision to revert back the health service docket.
The Governor regretted that the reduction of budgetary allocation to the Kisii Teaching and Referral Hospital (KTRH) from Ksh 211 million in the last financial year to Ksh 83 million this financial year is hindering service delivery in the hospital which serves a population of more than 4 million people. The hospital serves Kisii, Nyamira, Migori, Homabay and parts of Narok counties.
Ongwae said Members of Parliament should push for more allocations in hospitals adding that many development projects in hospitals have stalled after the Members of Parliament reduced budgetary allocations to the facilities.
He said services at county hospitals have improved despite poor funding by the national government.
