World Bank to support health and nutrition services for 35 million Kenyans by 2016

Public health facilities like Siaya District Hospital will also benefit from the project. [PHOTO: FILE]

Nairobi-Kenya: The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved new funding to support Kenya’s efforts to deliver quality health and nutrition services to as many as 35 million people by 2016. Of these beneficiaries, half are women and about 16 percent live in drought-prone areas.

Kenya has been implementing extensive reforms in its health sector, including by setting up a single National Ministry of Health and empowering the country’s 47 counties to manage health services. The new funds will be used to help manage these changes, and to ensure that poor people benefit from the reforms.