Government has spent Ks40 billion on purchasing medicines and medical equipment and Ks6 billion on machinery for public healthcare in the current fiscal year, according to the Ministry of Health and Sports. 

The State allotted over Ks1,000 billion to the ministry for the 2019-2020 fiscal year.

The Union Minister for Health and Sports, during a briefing on the ministry’s activities in the fourth year of the government’s term, said the improvement of the public health sector would help improve health standards of the people. 

He stressed the need to improve public healthcare services in order to reduce disease outbreaks and numbers of patients coming to hospital. 

With the decreasing number of patients coming to hospital, better healthcare can be provided and surplus budgets can be spent on purchasing quality medicines and modern medical equipment, he added. 

In the previous financial year, the ministry took measures such as conducting campaigns to improve public health knowledge, ensuring patient safety, promoting health news and information, improving e-government system, distributing quality medicines and medical equipment and sending more trainees abroad to meetings and training courses.