We, the Meru members of Parliament have learnt with shock and disbelief, that despite the very high incidence and death of our people through non communicable diseases especially Cancer and Diabetes, the Governor of Meru, Peter Munya, has frustrated all efforts by the Ministry of Health, to install modern theatre equipment, surgical instruments, renal unit equipment, an ICU facility, and radiology equipment in Meru level 5, referral and training hospital.
Consequently the people of Meru stand to lose medical equipment worth Kshs. 460 million leased for Meru level 5 hospital by GOK. The people of Meru will continue to incur huge financial costs of treatment and management of Cancer and dialysis at Kenyatta General Hospital, private hospitals in Nairobi and in India, not to mention thousands of the poor Merus, who will continue to suffer and die in pain at home for lack of access to these medical services.
It will be remembered that after several months of stubborn refusal to sign the MOU for provision of medical equipment with the Ministry of Health, the Governor finally bowed to public pressure, and signed the memorandum on 31.07.2015.
Meru level 5 hospital was among the first five hospitals in Kenya in which the managed equipment services (MES) program was to be piloted and completed by May 2015, along Machakos, Nakuru, Homabay and Kakamega hospitals, but the Governor frustrated the pilot project.
On 21.09.2015 the Ministry of Health wrote to the Governor to constitute a hospital implementation committee, which would facilitate the Ministry to install the equipment at the Meru level 5 hospital but no such committee has been set up to date
On 2.10.2015, the Ministry project manager Mr. Morris Karaine and his team travelled to Meru and met the CEC health, Dr, William Muraa who was openly hostile to them. He told them to install the equipment at Kanyakine Hospital, which the project manager and his team found unsuitable due to poor and inadequate physical infrastructure, and lack of qualified staff. In any event no reason was given why the equipment could not be installed in Meru level 5 hospital.
To date the Governor has completely refused to meet the Ministry team to discuss the matter and Meru County stands to be the only county out of the 47 counties in Kenya to miss out on this critical MES project, which according to the Ministry has a deadline for June 30th 2016. It is a great shame and an insult to the people of Meru that after rejecting and frustrating the MES project, which can alter the Cancer and Diabetes trajectory in Meru County, Governor Peter Munya is busy attacking President Uhuru’s government for non-delivery politicking from village to village under the guise and smoscreen of Cancer screening.
As elected leaders of Meru County we shall not sit and watch our people suffer and die of Cancer and Diabetes just to satisfy the bloated ego of Governor Munya. We shall take very bold steps to ensure that the said equipment is delivered to Meru level 5 hospital as agreed between the Ministry and Meru County Government.
Consequently the people of Meru stand to lose medical equipment worth Kshs. 460 million leased for Meru level 5 hospital by GOK. The people of Meru will continue to incur huge financial costs of treatment and management of Cancer and dialysis at Kenyatta General Hospital, private hospitals in Nairobi and in India, not to mention thousands of the poor Merus, who will continue to suffer and die in pain at home for lack of access to these medical services.
It will be remembered that after several months of stubborn refusal to sign the MOU for provision of medical equipment with the Ministry of Health, the Governor finally bowed to public pressure, and signed the memorandum on 31.07.2015.
Meru level 5 hospital was among the first five hospitals in Kenya in which the managed equipment services (MES) program was to be piloted and completed by May 2015, along Machakos, Nakuru, Homabay and Kakamega hospitals, but the Governor frustrated the pilot project.
On 21.09.2015 the Ministry of Health wrote to the Governor to constitute a hospital implementation committee, which would facilitate the Ministry to install the equipment at the Meru level 5 hospital but no such committee has been set up to date
On 2.10.2015, the Ministry project manager Mr. Morris Karaine and his team travelled to Meru and met the CEC health, Dr, William Muraa who was openly hostile to them. He told them to install the equipment at Kanyakine Hospital, which the project manager and his team found unsuitable due to poor and inadequate physical infrastructure, and lack of qualified staff. In any event no reason was given why the equipment could not be installed in Meru level 5 hospital.
To date the Governor has completely refused to meet the Ministry team to discuss the matter and Meru County stands to be the only county out of the 47 counties in Kenya to miss out on this critical MES project, which according to the Ministry has a deadline for June 30th 2016. It is a great shame and an insult to the people of Meru that after rejecting and frustrating the MES project, which can alter the Cancer and Diabetes trajectory in Meru County, Governor Peter Munya is busy attacking President Uhuru’s government for non-delivery politicking from village to village under the guise and smoscreen of Cancer screening.
As elected leaders of Meru County we shall not sit and watch our people suffer and die of Cancer and Diabetes just to satisfy the bloated ego of Governor Munya. We shall take very bold steps to ensure that the said equipment is delivered to Meru level 5 hospital as agreed between the Ministry and Meru County Government.
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