The County Government of Nandi has renewed contracts for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) staff employed by the National Government under the UHC Cohort 1 program.
This makes the county the first one within the North rift region to renew the UHC staff contracts.
The contracts have been renewed for another period of three years under the same terms.
This follows an agreement made by the Council of Governors (CoG) and the Ministry of Health in their contract renewal.
The practitioners who include doctors, nurses, clinicians, midwives and health records officers have been under a three-year contract.
However, the contract period had expired.
Speaking while officiating the issuance of the letters, the Nandi Chief Officer for Health and Sanitation Fredrik Kiptum appealed to the medical practitioners and across the county to dedicate their time to serving residents saying that they were earning a salary drawn from the tax payers.
“The number of patients in the public hospitals has increased due to the new Governor’s zeal to revamp the sector,” noted Kiptum.
Quality healthcare services
On his part, the Human Resource Director at the Nandi County Public Service Board Charles Kimutai called on the health workers to diligently serve the residents.
UHC is a World Health Organisation (WHO) programme, adopted my member states, to ensure all people have access to the full range of quality health services they need, when and where they need them, without financial hardship.
It covers the full continuum of essential health services, from health promotion to prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and palliative care across the life course.
The UHC programme in Kenya started in 2018 as a pilot in four counties, overseen by the Ministry of Health.
It has since bee rollout across all the 47 devolved units.
