The Healthcare Challenge
Today, Makueni County faces significant healthcare challenges:
- • Limited service quality: While Makueni has 138 health facilities, they lack motivated staff and essential drugs—the key barriers to effective service delivery
- • Staffing gaps: Many health centers lack doctors and trained nurses, especially in remote areas
- • High maternal mortality: Preventable deaths during pregnancy and childbirth remain a tragic reality
- • Equipment & medicine shortages: Many facilities lack basic diagnostic equipment and essential medicines
- • Affordability: Medical costs push many families into poverty and preventable disease
Our Healthcare Strategy
Infrastructure Upgrade
Transform Makueni's healthcare infrastructure to meet modern standards and serve all communities.
- ✓ Upgrade all county hospitals to Level 4 standards with modern equipment and specialized units
- ✓ Renovate 50 existing health posts with solar power and water systems
- ✓ Deploy mobile clinics to remote areas for monthly healthcare access
- ✓ Establish medical supply chain ensuring medicines and equipment availability
Strengthen Healthcare Workforce
Recruit, train, and retain quality healthcare professionals to staff Makueni's facilities.
- ✓ Hire 200 additional medical practitioners (doctors, nurses) over 5 years
- ✓ Train 500 community health workers for preventive care
- ✓ Improve healthcare worker salaries and benefits to retain talent
- ✓ Provide ongoing professional development and specialization training
- ✓ Establish mentorship programs with national teaching hospitals
Maternal & Child Health Excellence
Dramatically reduce maternal and child mortality through integrated programs.
- ✓ Provide free prenatal, delivery, and postnatal care for all pregnant women
- ✓ Establish 5 specialized maternal and child health centers
- ✓ Increase institutional delivery rate from 45% to 90%
- ✓ Provide free immunizations and nutritional support for children
- ✓ Combat malnutrition through targeted feeding programs
Disease Prevention & Control
Prevent disease through vaccination, surveillance, and public health programs.
- ✓ Establish robust disease surveillance and rapid response systems
- ✓ Achieve 95%+ immunization coverage for all preventable diseases
- ✓ Launch health promotion campaigns on nutrition, sanitation, and hygiene
- ✓ Strengthen TB and HIV/AIDS management and prevention
- ✓ Support mental health services and counseling
Healthcare Targets by 2032
Healthcare access within 5 km
Institutional birth delivery rate
Immunization coverage
Reduction in maternal mortality
Sustainable Financing
County Budget Allocation
Dedicate 25% of county budget to healthcare—approximately 2.5 billion KES annually
Development Partners
Partner with WHO, World Bank, and bilateral donors for technical support and co-financing
Health Insurance
Strengthen NHIF uptake and establish county health insurance for the poor