HEALTH SERVICES
The department comprises of the following; Medical Services, Public Health and Sanitation.
Sector Goals:
- Reduce the maternal mortality ratio to less than 300 per 100,000 live births.
- Reduce neonatal mortality to at least as low as 12 per 1,000 live births.
- Reduce under-5 mortality to at least as low as 25 per 1,000 live births.
- End the tuberculosis epidemic and other communicable diseases.
Strengthen the prevention and treatment of substance abuse, including narcotic drug abuse and harmful use of alcohol. - Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including for family planning.
- Enhance access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all.
- Sustain health financing to at least at 30% of annual budgets.
Training and retention of the health workforce.
Improve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation. - Enhance health research and surveillance.
- Enhance management of malnutrition
- Improve health infrastructure to reduced referrals outside the county.
- Achieve universal health coverage including but not limited to financial risk protection.
Management
- County Executive –Saadia Ahmed Abdi
- Chief Officer – Public Health and Sanitation – Mohamed A. Guhad
- Chief Officer – Medical Services – Rukia Maalim Kahiye
