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Health sector gets lion's share of Kakamega's Sh17.3b budget

Kakamega Level Six Teaching and Referral Hospital located in Kakamega County. [Benard Lusigi, Standard]

Kakamega ward representatives have unanimously passed the county budget estimates for the financial year 2023/2024, with recurrent expenditure and development getting the lion's share of the Sh17.37 billion budget.

Recurrent expenditure will gobble up Sh11.4 billion, representing 64.47 per cent of the total budget while Sh6.3 billion (35.53 per cent) has been earmarked for development.

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