In order to provide improved and better health services, Elgeyo Marakwet Governor Alex Tolgos on Thursday, July 28, 2022, inaugurated the Flax Health Center maternity wing and ambulances for Chepkorio ward, Keiyo South sub-county.
Assorted equipment including a portable Ultrasound machine, baby incubator, baby Resuscitaire, centrifuge, delivery beds, hospital beds, and microscope among others were presented to the facility.
All this is in an effort to bring services closer to the residents who transversed long distances to seek critical health services.
Governor Tolgos said that his administration was determined to ensure Elgeyo Marakwet residents had access to quality affordable health care services by constructing and operationalizing more health facilities and maternity wings within the county.
“Every mother and newborn child deserves an equal chance of survival during the childbirth process. Your testimonies show what the residents really lacked,” said Governor Tolgos.
He reiterated his administration’s commitment to prioritise the improvement of primary health care service citing it as a critical foundation in the prevention of diseases and death.
Health and sanitation chief officer Mary Kipchumba conquered with the medical practitioners that with the existence of ultrasound machines, mothers can monitor how the unborn baby was fairing enabling timely intervention.
Covid-19 vaccination campaign
“The department of health shall also increase the staff to ensure proficiency of the facility,” said the CO.
Governor Tolgos also launched the fifth Covid 19 vaccine outreach program.
This program was necessitated by the low uptake of the COVID-19 vaccines within Elgeyo Marakwet with the county having achieved less than 25% of the target population.
Mzee Julias Kibor, a resident of Flax recalled how he used to struggle to refer pregnant women who were in labour to Eldoret to seek medication. Others could deliver on road because of the distance
“I would like to thank the county government for construction of the maternity and the ambulance because initially, our wives used to deliver on the road because of lack of ambulance and the distance the hospital,” said Mzee Kibor.
The governor was also accompanied by the acting director of medical services Dr Kosgei, Acting sub-County MOH Keiyo South Henry Kandagor and other health staff.
