Kericho County Commissioner Mr Gilbert Kitiyo on Tuesday called on residents to enrol in large numbers with the Social Health Authority (SHA) for the government to serve them better under the new enhanced medical scheme.
Speaking at Kipsitet trading centre during the official inauguration of the newly created Soin Sub County, which was curved out of the larger Soin-Sigowet Sub-County, Mr Kitiyo said that misinformation and negative publicity by non-patriotic individuals had hampered the good intentions of government efforts to roll out and register as many Kenyans as possible under SHA.
Mr Kitiyo said that the new health scheme was operational, functional, and running contrary to the propaganda being peddled out to Kenyans that the new scheme was not offering the intended services and not operational.
“The new SHA scheme has its own system challenges but the bottle necks were being effectively addressed by the concerned health system ICT managers and we call upon residents who have been affected to be patient until the SHA system normalises,” Mr Kitiyo remarked.
Kitiyo told residents of the newly created Soin Sub County whose headquarters will be at Kipsitet trading centre to embrace the new Sub County by building it with their own resources. He advised residents to start coming up with rental houses to cater for public servants who will be posted to serve in the area.
The administrator said that a new Deputy County Commissioner will also be posted to Kipsitet which will be the headquarters of the sub county.
Soin Sub County has three divisions namely, Soliat, Koita-burot and Soin divisions and borders Kisumu County along Sondu and Koru Soin Dam.
He explained the importance of accommodating the new staff closer and within the newly created Sub-County instead of having officers seek for accommodation far away in Kericho town. This he noted will affect quality service delivery to residents.
Mr Kitiyo and other leaders present at the function said the newly created Sub-County is going to be a new recruitment centre for police officers, Kenya Défense Forces, KDF, prison officers and personnel, National Youth Service NYS personnel, teachers, chiefs among other government officers to serve at the station.
By Dominic Cheres and Happiness Tanui
