Makueni County Governor Kivutha Kibwana has taken the health care system in his county a notch higher through the invention of a biometric health card that will help residents access health services more easily.
County Administrative Officer (CAO), Jopha Kitonga revealed that there are plans for residents in the county to acquire the cards to improve the delivery of health services.
Speaking in his Wote office on Monday, he stated that the exercise will start from 3rd to 30th June 2019.
There will be two centers to conduct the process in each of the thirty wards in the region.
Ksh500 will be paid to register for the biometric card that will be used to access services like drugs, bed fee, dental treatment, laboratory services and imaging among others.
The CAO cautioned that the card will not be used to access services like surgical, implant and post-mortem which are more complex and specialized.
“The main aim of issuing the biometric cards is to help reduce the burden of the vulnerable that cannot access healthcare services. They will use the card to access health care in nine hospitals within the county namely Makueni referral hospital, Makindu, Mbooni, Tawa, Kisau, Kilungu, Matiliku, Kibwezi and Sultan Hamud,” he stated.
Residents will have to come with their identity cards and birth certificates, while birth notification cards will be used to register children.
Eighty clerks have been trained to do the registration throughout the county, residents have been urged to turn out in large numbers to make the exercise a success.
The county government of Makueni is targeting to register 200,000 households during the four-week long exercise.
Kibwana was the first county boss to attain Universal Health Care (UHC) in the nation, a fete that has earned him a lot of respect with many of his counterparts flocking his territory to benchmark this significant move.
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