Need for innovative models to boost our public health services

Dysfunctional medical laboratory services have been a recurrent challenge within public health care setting for many years. It undermines health care provision by not adequately supporting accurate and timely diagnosis and management of illnesses.

But a recently-concluded four-year project model for laboratory Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) in Taita-Taveta County has demonstrated that innovative modelscan help turn around the performance of the public labs and deliver significant positive multiplier effects on the overall healthsector.