{"id":145317,"date":"2026-06-30T17:02:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T17:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/cabinet-approves-ksh4-5b-plan-to-build-10-mother-and-child-hospitals\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T17:02:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T17:02:55","slug":"cabinet-approves-ksh4-5b-plan-to-build-10-mother-and-child-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/cabinet-approves-ksh4-5b-plan-to-build-10-mother-and-child-hospitals\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet approves Ksh4.5B plan to build 10 mother and child hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Cabinet has approved a Ksh4.5 billion initiative to construct 10 Mother and Child hospitals across the country to improve maternal and neonatal healthcare services.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The decision was made during a Cabinet meeting chaired by President William Ruto at State House, Nairobi.<\/p>\n<p>The Mother and Child Lifeline Initiative, a partnership between the government and Amsons Group, will see the construction of Level 4 and Level 5 hospitals in Magadi Road (Nairobi), Galmagalla in Fafi (Garissa), Siakago (Embu), Kisumu County Referral Hospital, Kabichbich (West Pokot), Huruma (Uasin Gishu), Tudor (Mombasa), Bahati (Nakuru), Samburu (Kwale) and Chebunyo (Bomet).<\/p>\n<p>The initiative will complement the Ksh7.8 billion second phase of the Kenya-Austria Mother and Child-Our Future Project to modernise maternal and neonatal care at Kenyatta National Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The two programmes are expected to expand access to specialised healthcare, strengthen the country\u2019s health workforce and improve health outcomes for mothers and newborns.<\/p>\n<p>In the same meeting, Cabinet endorsed the Kenya-United States Health Cooperation Framework to sustain collaboration in the fight against HIV, malaria, tuberculosis and emerging infectious diseases while supporting Kenya\u2019s transition to a more self-reliant healthcare system.<\/p>\n<p>The framework is set to strengthen disease surveillance, laboratory services, digital health systems and medical supply chains.<\/p>\n<p>It will also provide for the gradual integration of more than 13,000 frontline health workers currently supported by the United States into Kenya\u2019s public health workforce.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the Cabinet approved a series of policy and legislative measures aimed at strengthening protection for vulnerable families.<\/p>\n<p>Among them are the Kenya Children Policy, 2025, the Protection Against Domestic Violence (Amendment) Bill, 2026, and the report of the Presidential Technical Working Group on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/cabinet-approves-ksh4-5b-plan-to-build-10-mother-and-child-hospitals\/\">Cabinet approves Ksh4.5B plan to build 10 mother and child hospitals<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cabinet has approved a Ksh4.5 billion initiative to construct 10 Mother and Child hospitals across the country to improve maternal and neonatal healthcare services. The decision was made during a Cabinet meeting chaired by President William Ruto at State House, Nairobi. The Mother and Child Lifeline Initiative, a partnership between the government and Amsons [&hellip;]<\/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-145317","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\/145317","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=145317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}