Health Services

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.

To provide a technologically driven, evidence based, acceptable, affordable, equitable, effective and efficient quality health services in Wajir County.

Vision

Be the provider of choice for affordable and quality health care services in Wajir County

Physical Location;

Contact;

  • County Executive – Habiba Ali Maalim.
  • Chief Officer – Public Health and Sanitation – Mohamed Kahiye Bulle.
  • Chief Officer – Medical Services – Mohamed Abdullahi Guhad.