Kisumu County Health Bill to face public participation

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  The County Assembly of Kisumu which its health Committee has drafted the Kisumu County Health Bill that will be subjected to public participation this Friday in Kisumu City-Photo By Dickson odhiambo


 By Dickson Odhiambo.

October 29, 2019.

Kisumu County Health Bill to face public participation

Members of the Public are required to turn up in large numbers so as to give their views on the Kisumu County Health Bill this Friday November 1.

The Chairman of the Health Committee at the County Assembly of Kisumu Vincent Jagongo says the Bill now seeks to get views of members of the public before it is taken to the County Assembly for debate and passage.

Addressing the press after the adjournment of the County Assembly today’s session, Jagongo said the public are fully invited to present their views before the County Assembly’s Committee on Health at Aga Khan Hall in Kisumu City.

Jagongo says the Bill seeks to fully ensure that the funds allocated to the Department of Health within Kisumu County is only utilized for health issues and nothing else.

He says the Bill will also help in employing the new staff who will be working at the department of health within the county, adding that there is need to employ new staff within the health departmen.

Jagongo who is also the Member of County Assembly representing North West Kisumu Ward says the Bill will also ensure that the Jaramogi Oginga Teaching and Referral Hospital will now be autonomous and carry out its operations on its own.

“This Bill will surely of great help to our Referral Hospital known as Russia and it will make it autonomous and performs its functions on its own,” Jagongo says.

He says the Bill will also empower the Community Health Volunteers to be fully paid some stipends while recognizing the roles they play in the society.

The Chairman of the Health Committee at the County Assembly of Kisumu adds that the bill will also ensure that the grant from National Government given to the Counties for addressing the health issues will only be used for the intended purposes.

Jagongo at the same time says the current budgetary allocation to the health department is about shs 3.3 billion of which a huge chunk is used in paying salaries and operations and maintenance.

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