UHC: Ministry turns the focus to community health workers

Chief Administrative Secretary in the Ministry of Health Dr Rashid Aman. [File, Standard]

The government plans to train 100,000 health workers in a bid to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2022. This was revealed by Dr Rashid Aman, the Chief Administrative Secretary in the Ministry of Health. He said that the government is focusing more on community health strategy as a way of ensuring all Kenyans access quality healthcare.

Dr Aman was speaking while opening the just ended three-day Global Health Practitioner Conference. “Community health is a cost-effective avenue for achieving UHC. While investing in a well-resourced and functional community health system requires significant initial expenditure, in the medium term, countries stand to reap direct and indirect health and other social benefits,” Dr Aman said.