President Uhuru Kenyatta inspecting medical equipment that will be distributed to counties at State House on Friday. | image source: PSCU
Governors on Monday insisted that they would not be party to the KES 38 billion healthcare plan launched by President Uhuru Kenyatta last week.
Governors are in charge of the devolved units and their refusal to support the Managed Equipment Service (MES) Programme by the national government could jeopardise its roll-out.
Hospitals and medical staff are under management of county governments since heath is a devolved function.
Addressing the press after a Council of Governors’ meeting in Nairobi, the county chiefs said they prefer the equipment be bought, not leased, because that would cut costs by a quarter.
"The cost of leasing the equipment for 10 years is enough to buy our own equipment over a period of three years. Spending Sh38 billion to lease equipment is a colossal amount," the governors said in a statesmen read by Meru Governor Peter Munya.
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