COUNTIES SHOULD GIVE PRIORITY TO HEALTH CARE

The plight of medical practitioners working in the county hospitals has resurfaced. Already in Machakos county, the doctors are up in arms protesting over mistreatment by the county authorities. Similarly in Kiambu county the doctors have threatened to shut down their tools complaining of poor working conditions.

From the past experiences, when complaints begin this way,they raise issues that end up developing into crisis. Let's consider even the education sector. And that's why there is need to quickly call an intervention and stem the tide.

At the top of the matter is the inability of the counties go to manage the health care since the constitution transferred management of health centres to the county government as the national government was to take charge of formulating policies and also only the management of referral hospitals including currently the Moi Referral Hospital and Kenyatta National Hospital. In the context, the former districts and provincial hospitals became county hospitals.
Generally, the challenge now is that the counties lack the capacity and infrastructure to manage the hospitals.

By Ruth Fanice.