Accessible, affordable and quality healthcare has been a top priority for President Ruto and the Kenya Kwanza government, with President Ruto persistently advocating for the improvement of the healthcare sector.
In the past year or so of his Presidency, the government up scaled the investment in the healthcare workforce under Afya Nyumbani.
Under President Ruto, KEMSA saw an increase of availability of drugs and non-pharmaceuticals from 23% to 64%.
The Kenya Kwanza government has employed about 20,000 new healthcare workers, deploying 8,429 workers whose contracts had lapsed and enrolling 3,394 interns across the country to increase the availability of human capital in our public health sector.
The government also trained over 16,000 Community Health Promoters in 2022 and 23,000 in the year 2023.
President Ruto’s government has identified preventive care as an essential pillar of healthcare service delivery because it enables Kenyans to manage their conditions early enough before they cause serious harm in well-being and productivity.
Community health promotion is H.E Ruto’s bottom-up intervention to deliver preventive and promotive health solutions at the grassroots, by deploying 100,000 community health promoters to visit Kenyans at their homes, provide basic diagnosis for common conditions and refer cases to appropriate medical facilities.