- Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Irrigation
- Finance and Economic Planning
- Medical Services and Public Health
- Education, Vocational Training, Youth and Sports
- Lands, Physical planning, Urban development, Housing and Municipalities
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Department of Health- Scorecard 2017-2022
With health, being a key function of the devolved function & with desire to ensure that Health service are accessible, affordable, quality and equitable and client centered health services to all residents of the county the government embarked on a strategies, namely:
- Equipping of new & existing healthcare facilities
- Upgrade and expansion of healthcare facilities
- Universal Healthcare program (Mbuzi moja Afya bora initiative)
- Completion of stalled & ongoing projects
- Preventive care – public health
- Strengthen the governance structures within the sector areas
- Strengthening of nutrition coordination at all levels
- Upscale immunization coverage for all under one.
Milestone Achieved in summary
| DEPARTMENT | Project / Program | Achievements To-date | Completed, Ready for Commissioning Operational | Ongoing projects in over 80% | |
| Medical health, Public health & Sanitation | Objective: To improve access to healthcare services | ||||
| Outcome: Increased access to healthcare services | |||||
| Newly started Dispensaries & Healthcare centres | 34 | 21 | 13 | ||
| Upgrade & Equipping projects | 49 | 38 | 11 | ||
| New Wards & Maternity Wings | 9 | 9.0 | |||
| UHC(Mbuzi Moja Initiative) | Over 24,400 households beneficiaries | ||||
| Public Toilets | 7 | ||||
Upgrade of Kajiado County Referral Hospital to Level 5 Status
The County Government has upgraded Kajiado Referral Hospital to a Level 5 Status Hospital. Kajiado County residents will now be able to access specialized treatment at lower costs since referrals to other facilities are likely to reduce. In addition, Four Sub-county Hospitals, namely, Ngong, Loitokitok, Kitengela & Ongata Rongai were also upgraded to level 4 status hence handling patients who would have been referred to Kajiado or neighboring counties.
Human Resources
The County has recruited and deployed health workers among them specialists, medical officers, clinical officers, nurses, radiologists, pharmaceutical technicians, medical lab technologists among others. Doctors have been posted to Sub County hospitals and so far, each of these hospitals has at least three doctors where previously there was one or none at all.
| Cadre | 2017 | 2022 | |
| 1 | Special Medical Consultants | 3 | 16 |
| 2 | Medical Officers | 21 | 40 |
| 3 | Dentists | 0 | 8 |
| 4 | Clinical Officers | 70 | 130 |
| 5 | Nurse’s (BSN Specialists, KRCHN/KRN, KECNH) | 437 | 629 |
| 6 | Nutritionists | 29 | 60 |
| 7 | Laboratory officers | 54 | 78 |
| 8 | Public Health officers | 113 | 125 |
| 9 | Physiotherapists | 8 | 13 |
| 10 | Health Administrative officers | 0 | 11 |
| 11 | Health Records & Information Management officers | 19 | 28 |
| 12 | Medical Engineers | 3 | 8 |
| 13 | Morticians & Mortuary attendants | 0 | 4 |
| 14 | Community Health Assistants | 50 | 103 |
| 15 | Community Health Volunteers | 800 | 1932 |
Equipping comparative analysis
The county government has been able to equip the County referral hospital and Sub County hospital by installing modern equipment including MRI, St-Scan, digital x-rays, kidney dialysis machines, theaters and Intensive Care Units as part of the transformational agenda under HE Governor Joseph Ole Lenku.
| Equipment’s/Special Clinics | 2017 | 2022 | |
| 1 | Intensive Care Unit ( ICU ) | None | 10 |
| 2 | High Dependency Unit ( HDU ) | None | 9 |
| 3 | Renal Equipment & bed dialysis machines | None | 6 |
| 4 | 6 Slice Computerized Tomography (CT-Scan) | None | 1 |
| 5 | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) | None | 1 |
| 6 | Mechanical Ventilators | None | 10 |
| 7 | Cardiac Monitors | None | 10 |
| 8 | Image Intensifier | None | |
| 9 | Patient Doppler machine | None | 11 |
| 10 | CPAP machine | None | 24 |
| 11 | Blood bank refrigerator | None | 2 |
| 12 | Platelet Agitator | None | 2 |
| 13 | Blood bank cooler boxes | None | 6 |
| 14 | Portable ultra sound machine | None | 13 |
| 15 | Baby incubators | 15 | 25 |
| 16 | Caesarian section sets | 9 | 25 |
| 17 | Phototherapy machine | 10 | 30 |
| 18 | obstetric/delivery beds(modern) | 4 | 40 |
| 19 | Operating tables | 3 | 5 |
| 20 | Anesthetic machines | 3 | 5 |
| 21 | Patient monitors | 3 | 20 |
| 22 | Emergency carts/trolleys | 5 | 20 |
| 23 | Patient beds with mattresses | 500 | 1660 |
For the first time since independence, Mashuru, Ngong and Ongata Rongai Sub County hospitals have theatre facilities installed by the County and can offer comprehensive obstetric care.