The Mountain Journal
A delegation from Machakos County Government on Thursday visited Kirinyaga County for a
benchmarking tour on healthcare service delivery.
The visit by a team comprised of senior officers from Machakos department of Health and
Medical Services came a week after Governor Wavinya Ndeti, alongside other governors, toured
Kerugoya Medical Complex during the G7 Kirinyaga Chapter Activation.
Wavinya had said that she was committed to leveraging successful healthcare model from
Kirinyaga County to foster health system improvement for the benefit of Machakos residents.
“I shall also built a public hospital that has the same standards as some of our biggest private
hospitals. I am going to send a team here to learn one or two things from Kirinyaga,” she said.
Led by the acting County Executive Committee for Health, Justus Kasivo, the Machakos team
visited various departments at the state-of-the-art medical facility that was opened last year.
“Our visit comes as result of the impression that our governor got when she visited the county
last week. We are here to learn and pick some of the best practices that we can replicate in our
county in order to improve on the services we are offering to our people.” said the CEC.
The county’s Chief Officer of Health Facilities and Infrastructure, Rashid Kara, noted that
Kirinyaga has significantly improved on its healthcare service delivery and infrastructure hence
making it an ideal destination for benchmarking. “We also wanted to understand on matters
concerning revenue collection and we have picked great ideas that we will implement back at
home” said Rashid. The team was also interested in Kirinyaga’s digitized healthcare
management system, which has streamlined operations and improved patient care efficiency.
Kirinyaga County is among the counties leading in the journey towards the achievement of
Universal Healthcare and has been lauded for its innovative approaches to healthcare which
include the Hospital Management Integrated System which ensures accountability, monitoring
and evaluation of the healthcare system.
Speaking during the visit, the Kirinyaga Chief Officer of Medical Services, Dr. Mureithi Nyaga
said that the County Government was pleased to host the delegation from Machakos County and
share insights that can help the delegation in improving their healthcare systems.
“Since the official opening of the Kerugoya Complex, we have seen a huge increase in the
patients we see daily, recording up to 600 patients in the outpatient department,” said Dr.
Mureithi.
Since the opening of the Kerugoya Medical Complex, delegations from various counties have
been visiting the facility with the aim of borrowing some of the best practices to implement in
their counties.
