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Governor Nyaribo commissions state of the art mother and newborn unit

Governor Amos Nyaribo has commissioned a state of the art Mother and newborn unit at Ekerenyo Sub County hospital in Nyamira County to boost health services in the area.

The Governor acknowledged that the facility will decongest Nyamira County Teaching and Referral Hospital (NTRH) for services to patients from neighbouring sub counties thereby bringing health care services to expectant mothers and their new born infants closer to the rural population.

“Ekerenyo sub County hospital will be the first one to offer this specialised surgical services in the sub county because the other two facilities are in Nyamira South Sub County at Nyamira town and Masaba North Sub County at Keroka town which had posed a serious challenge to residents from this area to access fast and efficient services far from them,” Nyaribo stated.

The county boss confirmed that neonatal mortality rate was 27 percent in a 1,000 births while that of infant mortality rate stood at 31 percent for every 1,000 live birth and promised that they will work round the clock with the help of these fully equipped facility and adequately trained medical personnel to ensure no life is lost be it that of a mother or a child during birth.

Governor Nyaribo thanked the government of Finland who delivered the modern facility he launched saying their cordial relationship and partnership to boost health services in Nyamira County has borne fruit.

“Finland’s promise to deliver the project in record time is a sure indication that the coordination between the county government of Nyamira and government of Finland was a very good one and has enabled the people of Nyamira benefit in receiving efficient health care services.

The lead of mission from the government of Finland, Oskar Kass acknowledged it was a great honour to work with the County government of Nyamira to ensure that they hand over the facility, a proof that the partnership between Finland and Kenya is very cordial and for the best interest of not just residents of Nyamira but the entire country.

Governor Amos Nyaribo (right in checked shirt) viewing some of the state-of-the-art theatre equipment to be used at the Ekerenyo subcounty Mother and Newborn unit.

“The project was co-financed by the two countries and is a step towards the right direction. Women’s health rights and maternal health is a very important part of Finland’s development policy which was initiated 30 years ago and we have a collaboration with Kenya in this regard to ensure they deliver best health services to their expectant mothers during birth. This clearly indicates that Nyamira County is at the forefront in ensuring safe births and steering the rights of women’s health,” The Finland team lead commented.

Kass hinted that they trained three personnel from Nyamira County on how to offer quality, efficient and professional health care services to mothers during birth and promised they will ensure the new unit’s equipment and the entire facility is maintained and closely supervised for the next 36 months to ensure that services are of the correct standards.

Dr. Edward Serem from the Ministry of health headquarters who works at the division of maternal health and the country project manager for similar projects like the one launched in Nyamira said there are similar projects still under construction in 20 other counties. The purpose of these partnerships is to ensure there is universal healthcare services to all Kenyans irrespective of geographical location.

“Kenya’s partnership with the government of Finland is to guarantee enhanced health care services to all expectant mothers during child birth by fully equipping our health care facilities and training the personnel to guarantee that no life of a mother or that of a child is lost during birth.

By Deborah Bochere  

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