Kilifi County Governor Amason Kingi has announced the making of a multimillion modern health facility in the County.
This will Health Complex Centre will be a major boost in the health sector both by facilities as well as service delivery and general healthcare to the people of Kilifi County.
According to the governor, the Kilifi County Health Complex will house a complete cancer management unit offering radio and chemo therapy services, thereby reducing cancer cases by three-fold through early detection and screening.
This modern health facility will also handle referrals North of the Coast region serving areas of Malindi, Tana River and Lamu Counties, hence decongesting the Coast General and Referral Hospital in Mombasa County which has been straining to serve the whole of the Coast Region from Lamu County in the North to Kwale County in the South Coast.
Kingi also added that the facility will be equipped with modern technology and machines like a Computer Tomography (CT) scan machine, a Magnetic Resonance Imaging Machine (MRI), a Ultra-Eye machine, a Positron Emission Tomography( PET) scan for cancer diagnostics, a mammography as well as a laboratory.
The County Government of Kilifi has also reviewed the facility to encompass an emergency and trauma centre fully serviced with a 24 hour ambulance service system and two operating theatres together with a 6-bed Intensive Care Unit (ICU) facility as well as a 6-bed High Dependency Unit (HDU) facility.
The completion of this project will be a game changer for the health sector and will ease the implementation of the Universal Health Coverage program under the President’s Big Four agenda.