Siaya Residents get free medical camp from Owalo Foundation

 

CS in charge of ICT and Digital Economy Eliud Owalo during a medical Camp organized by the Eliud Owalo Foundation that has offered free medical camps to residents of Rarieda Sub County in Siaya County-Photo Courtesy

By Dickson Odhiambo

 

December 24, 2023

 

Siaya Residents get free medical camp from Owalo Foundation

 

The residents of Siaya County have received free medical camp organized by Eliud Owalo Foundation and other partners.

 

The residents of Rarieda Sub County in Siaya County thronged Lwak Girls High school within Nyilima area to attend the free medical camp conducted by Eliud Owallo Foundation in partnership with Equity Afya,NHIF among other partners.

 

Cabinet Secretary in charge of ICT and Digital economy Eliud Owallo said his Foundation is augmenting the Government’s thematic area on health especially the Universial Health Coverage{UHC}.

 

He says UHC is a key thematic area and it targets all Kenyans to hve access to health care services wherever they are.

 

Owalo says such medical camps will also be conducted in various camps across the country through the Foundation and partners.

 

“We want to roll out this in entire Nyanza region and beyond so that we have a healthy people and healthy work force,” Owalo says.

 

Owalo says the medical camp has attracted 176 Medics among them the renowned medic Prof Joseph Aluoch who has practiced medicine for the last 56 years.

 

The Director General Dr Patrick Amoth says the Government has given the implementation of the Universal Health Coverage{UHC} a primary health care approach.

 

Dr Amoth says the approach has a strong Community Component, adding that there will be community diagnosis where common problems will be seen from the data collected.

 

He says the approach under the UHC is to fully strengthen the Primary Health Care services levels, adding  that community health promoters play a very important role in the roll out of the UHC.

 

He says prevention of diseases will be given more focus instead of focusing on curative services which is more expensive and unsustainable.

 

Pro Joseph Aluoch says medical camps should help the people to learn on how to keep themselves health at all times.

 

“Even those who are not sick can come and get medical advice and  there is also provision of health education on how one can keep himself or herself healthy,” Prof Aluoch says.