Govenment Budgetary constrains jolt medical services
On average, allocations to the health sector have been at about six per cent of the total Government budget in the last five years. This had made the sector predominantly financed by private sector sources including households’
out-of-pocket spending.Ă‚Â
47 Counties to Share Sh60 Billion Health Budget
SOME Sh60 billion from the Health ministry budget will be allocated to county governments for medical services, Cabinet secretary James Macharia said yesterday.
He said the ministry had requested Sh160 billion,
but Treasury has allocated it Sh98 billion
Africa hopes to speed up medicine approval systems
Bringing a new medicine to market in Africa requires 54 separate applications to each country on the continent, a time-intensive process that could be costing lives. African leaders are now trying to move toward a regional and eventually continentwide approach to speed the process.
The 17th Kenya International Trade Exhibition 2013
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