{"id":109518,"date":"2025-02-04T10:03:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T10:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/internal-conflicts-overlapping-laws-hinderance-to-implemenation-of-uhc\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T10:03:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T10:03:33","slug":"internal-conflicts-overlapping-laws-hinderance-to-implemenation-of-uhc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/internal-conflicts-overlapping-laws-hinderance-to-implemenation-of-uhc\/","title":{"rendered":"Internal conflicts, overlapping laws hinderance to implemenation of UHC"},"content":{"rendered":"

NAIROBI, Kenya Feb 4 \u2013 Conflicting laws and internal wrangles have been cited as critical issues that have been a stumbling block to implementing Universal Health Coverage (UHC).<\/strong><\/p>\n

The National Assembly\u2019s Health Committee was told that the two Principal Secretaries in the State Department of Medical Services and Public Health aren\u2019t in communicating terms a situation that has hindered implementation of healthcare services.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople hardly talk to each other at the State Department of Health, and State Department of Public Health. It is like Rwanda and DR Congo,\u201d the chairperson of the taskforce Khama Rogo said.<\/p>\n

The Presidential Taskforce on Health indicated that the litany of laws which sometimes overlap have made it difficult to manage healthcare workers.<\/p>\n

Rogo urged lawmakers to canvass a measure to eradicate some laws within the sector that have hindered the implementation of health services in the country.<\/p>\n

This is even as it emerged that the Ministry of Health has no data on total number of healthcare workers in the country who fall into at least 43 different cadres.<\/p>\n

The committee chaired by Endebes MP Robert Pukose was told that the health data in the country is owned by the donors who include intra health and USAID<\/p>\n

Seme MP James Nyikal questioned why\u00a0 the government was depending on donors for their own data pointing to negligence.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want our own data. We cannot accept data by USAID,\u201d said Nyikal.<\/p>\n

The taskforce admitted that the health scheme is faced with numerous challenges that needs fixing to ensure that the system functions smoothly.<\/p>\n

\u201cSHA is a secondary human resources component\u2026right now, where we are we are in a fix edge that we seem to move forward but the wheels move aside,\u201d observed Rogo.<\/p>\n

In response, Pukose said. \u201cThere are teething problems that are there just like when a new system come in place but we need to fix that\u201d.<\/p>\n

MPs were told a number of individuals manning hospitals are not professionals which has derailed the progress of building a strong health sector.<\/p>\n

\u201cA senior public health officer when he retires, he is replaced by drivers. We have seen positions of a medical officer being replaced by non medical officer to get higher pay,\u201d Rogo noted.<\/p>\n

The National Assembly Committee on health demanded for an establishment of clear roles across respective cadres in the ministry.<\/p>\n

The committee gazetted by President William Ruto in July last year to look into matters affecting health workers with a view of streamlining the health sector.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NAIROBI, Kenya Feb 4 \u2013 Conflicting laws and internal wrangles have been cited as critical issues that have been a stumbling block to implementing Universal Health Coverage (UHC). The National Assembly\u2019s Health Committee was told that the two Principal Secretaries in the State Department of Medical Services and Public Health aren\u2019t in communicating terms a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}