The government will reportedly spend another Ksh666 million to make use of the abandoned 100 container clinics bought in 2015 at a cost of Ksh1 billion.
According to Health Principal Secretary Susan Mochache, the ministry decided to use the clinics to support universal health coverage.
“The ministry would like to make this venture a special national portable clinics programme for delivery of UHC offering primary health care services to Kenyans living in informal settlements and hard to reach areas,” she told the National Assembly Committee on Health.
She disclosed that the programme would recruit four personnel including two nurses, a clinical officer, and a laboratory technologist for each portable clinic.
She added that 400 health workers would be hired at Ksh 336 million while medical supplies for all the clinics for one year will cost Ksh180 million.
Ksh 150 million will be spent on transportation, ground preparation including construction of toilets, waiting bay, installation of water, electricity, and fences.
The containers, sourced from China, are believed to be vital for health provision and include kits for improving child and maternal care.
Each container is already stocked with executive chairs, patient chair, portable toilet, and clinical devices.
There is also a hospital bed, weighing machine, a table unit, a computer, air conditioner, sink, syringes, and well-designed visitor waiting bay.
The containers, stored at the National Youth Service camp in Miritini and in Kasarani, were to be placed in strategic areas within informal settlements in Nairobi, Mombasa, and Kisumu.
