Big Win For LHS Kimanjo As Government Pumps Sh 50 Million For Upgrade

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The County Government of Laikipia has set aside Ksh. 50 million to upgrade LHS Kimanjo into the region's referral hospital.

  

The mega facelift, which will be implemented this financial year, will put the facility in a better place to handle most of the referrals, especially from the Northern part of the county, and will only refer complicated cases onwards. The development will not only benefit Laikipia North but also the vast region, as the likes of LHS Nanyuki will be relieved the burden of the many referrals.

  

The upgrade will see the facility widen its range of specialties, including x-rays, lab, and theatre services, becoming the region's radiology center. The facelift will include extra staff to run the added services.

  

The move is part of a wider healthcare investment plan the government is implementing across the county, which targets to bring referrals capacities closer to the people. Long term, the plan is meant to offset the cost of healthcare for the public and government, seeing as both sides incur significant resources that would be deployed to other social-economic activities.

  

This amount of investment puts LHS Kimanjo among the largest beneficiaries of the over 350 million shillings healthcare overhaul in the county this financial year.

  

The county government is adopting a policy shift in healthcare, where emphasis is on bringing more services closer to the people to cut the cost of access to healthcare. It is expected that the approach, together with sustained efforts to have more families on insurance, will help lower healthcare out-of-pocket financing, a factor that continues to ravage families.

  

The investment is the culmination of intensive deliberations that prioritized sustainable inputs with limited resources in mind. This way, the government is steering clear of the pitfalls that come with loosely researched investment choices, where huge funds are committed to unsustainable projects in the long run. This will be made possible through optimizing human resources and diagnostic logistics to improve efficiencies by maximizing the output of every facility. This will facilitate prudent management of resources by limiting wastages on investments that do not have the volumes for input.

  

The LHS outlets of Kimanjo, Lamuria, Rumuruti, Ndindika, Nyahururu, and Nanyuki are some of the biggest beneficiaries of the investment.

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