- Wamatangi assured Kiambu residents that in the next three months they will be treated for free.
- "We will also sit down with other health insurers and come up with a solution of helping secure our people on other ailments," Wamatangi said.
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Kiambu Governor Kimani Wamatangi has said that his administration is targeting over one million needy people in the ongoing mass registration programme of National Health Insurance Fund.
Speaking during the Christmas tree lighting in Kiambu town, Wamatangi assured Kiambu residents that in the next three months they will be treated for free.
He said that his administration has set aside Sh100 million in partnership with NHIF.
"We will also sit down with other health insurers and come up with a solution of helping secure our people on other ailments," Wamatangi said.
The county boss said that he will assent to a community health volunteers bill which is in the Assembly once passed.
The bill seeks to have the volunteers paid allowances.
"The community health volunteers are always on the ground helping our people and yet they are not given allowances, it is their right that they be appreciated," Wamatangi said.
He added that the county government has paid Sh60 million for medical supplies to Kemsa so as to ensure health facilities in Kiambu from dispensaries to level five hospitals have medicine in their shelves
"We have a system where Kemsa with health facilities in Kiambu are in agreement that when medicine is depleted from the shelves, Kemsa supplies medicine and they bill the county government so that our hospitals do not lack medicine," Wamatangi said.
Wamatangi, meanwhile, announced that county bursary fund has been reviewed upwards from Sh100 million to Sh200 million so as to increase the amount awarded to beneficiaries.
"The bursary fund given to our students ranged from Sh2,000 to Sh3,000 which is not enough. We have increased the fund to Sh200 million," Wamatangi said.
He said that the kitty will be disbursed the first week of January and have formulated a special form with schools where needy students will no longer be sent home due to lack of school fees when bursary fund is delayed.
Meanwhile, the governor promised that street lighting will be done in all major towns of the county and streets roads rehabilitated with cabro stones as a way of uplifting the town's standards.
Wamatangi gave out Christmas gifts in form of maize floor to the residents.