Enhancing safety in the working environment
Kenya Healthcare Federation held the second members meeting at ParkInn hotel in Westlands, on 21st March 2019.The meeting was sponsored by Global Fund/Kenya Coordinating Mechanism(KCM).The goal of Global Fund/KCM is to dramatically increase resources to fight three of the world’s most devastating diseases(Tuberculosis, HIV &AIDS and Malaria)and to direct those resources to areas of greatest need The themes for the Global Fund strategy are: Innovative approaches to meet diverse country needs, strengthening systems for health is critical to attain universal health coverage and to accelerate the end of the epidemics, Increased programmatic and financial resources from diverse sources are needed to accelerate the end of the epidemics and Promoting and protecting human rights and gender equality is required to accelerate the end of the epidemics
The Key goal of KCM is to mobilize funds from The Global Fund for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria programmes and to coordinate and evaluate implementation of the Global Fund grants. With the support of the Global Fund and other Partners, the MoH initiated and sustained over 1million adults and children living with HIV on ARVs. Global fund prides itself in the remarkable achievements including: Over 15 million Long Lasting Insecticide Treated Bed Nets distributed & Malaria Case Management supported, Reduction in malaria prevalence from 11% in 2010 to 8% in 2015, TB Medicines provided to over 900,000 Patients and Services for HIV, TB and Malaria are provided to all Kenyans at no cost in all Public Health Facilities.
The meeting was also graced by Mr. Antony Wahome, chairman, national gun owners association of Kenya, his major focus was to inform and sensitize the health workers on how to handle armed patients to protect themselves and the patients as well. He emphasized on internalizing the law of fire arms and how to safely handle fire arms. Dr. Amit N. Thakker, chairman, Kenya Healthcare Federation, emphasized on a call from the cabinet secretary, ministry of health, Mrs. Sicily Kariuki, for joint efforts with the private sector towards fighting corruption and fraud in the health sector especially in the supply chain, with a major focus on pharmaceuticals.