Accessibility To The Health Care System

Accessibility To The Health Care System

Abstract

Kenya has a population of roughly 44 million people. Health services are handed through a network of over 4,700 health installations countrywide, with the public sector ac- counting for about 51 of these installations. The stylish quality of care is set up at the public referral hospitals, which give individual, remedial and rehabilitative services. Kenya spent5.1 of its Gross Domestic Product( GDP) on healthcare in 2002. Life expectation is also on the decline. In 2006, the child mortality rate was 78 per 1,000 live births. Among the Kenyans who are ill and choose to seek care, 44 were hindered by cost and corruption. Another 18 were hindered by the long distance to the nearest health installation. introductory primary care is handed at primary healthcare centers and drugstores. The pur- disguise of this paper is to produce mindfulness of the current healthcare system in Kenya, its availability and enlighten on storehouse healthcare records. The exploration questions were What’s the current situation on healthcare availability in Kenya? What are the benefits of introducing a computer- grounded system in the Kenyan health sector? The results give a clear picture and what the healthcare system in Kenya operates and how the availability of healthcare installations is endured by the Kenyans. Some Kenyans are unfit to pierce healthcare services due to colorful reasons. One of them is the distance to the health centers in relation to transport and urgency for treatment. Another problem is the cost of healthcare especially in the pastoral areas where a good number of civilians are below poverty position. There are also the benefits that the healthcare system will gain from introducing a motorized system of medical record storehouse to more identify the cases and render better healthcare services.

preface

Kenya has a largely growing population but further than half of its population makes up the maturity poor( Tumbo- Oeri, 2000). People living under the poverty line don’t have enough earnings for their introductory requirements, food, water and sanctum. They’re thus the people who calculate most on government subventions for health care. Unfortunately, they face numerous walls in penetrating health care and generally end up entering poorer services than the nonage rich population.

The Ministry of Health, MOH is the main association that heads the Kenyan health care system. It gives the reservations of health care and plays a big part in making the rules of the health care labor force. There are three main sectors of health care the public sector which represents all government possessed health care installations, the private sector which collaborates private individualities and institutions and thenon-profit timber organ- izations which include associations like churches which form health care installations that arenon-profit-making.

There are about 4, 700 health care installations in Kenya that feed to the population of 44 million residers. The public sector serves further than half the citizens of Kenya and ac- counts for about 51 of all health care requirements. The reason it takes priority over the private sector is that further residers of Kenya can go care at the government possessed health care installations as the prices are greatly subsidized and some services are offered free in public health care installations. The main public referral hospitals in the country are the Kenyatta National Hospital, in Nairobi and the Moi Referral and Teaching Hos- pital in Eldoret, all of which are government- possessed structures. This paper focuses on the government- possessed health care installations( public sector).

As a result of the high population, the Kenyan government has tried to give equity in the health care system so as to effectively alienate mortal suffering and ameliorate life- styles of her citizens. The Kenyan medical system is marred by numerous factors that render availability and delivery of health care delicate. These factors include poor govern- ance, overreliance on patron finances, corruption, nepotism, traditional and artistic beliefs of the citizens, a lack of a medical form system, lack of effective structure, massive poverty and ignorance.

One of the main profitable conditioning that bring great profit in Kenya is husbandry. This is a largely homemade labour that requires lots of productivity and good health care of her citizens ensures great productivity at work too therefore lowering the poverty position.

Proper health care is of significance in reducing poverty and adding the profitable growth because as it is, general unwellness of the citizens renders Kenya poorer. utmost grown-ups are unfit to pierce proper medical care therefore staying down from their workplaces on long sick leaves. These long sick leaves end up reducing the profitable growth.

The set Millenium Development Goals( MDGs) concentrate on the enhancement of health as well as enhancing mortal life on a global scale. There are 8 set MDGs and three of them relate to the enhancement of health care provision to mortal beings. The three pretensions aim at perfecting motherly health, reducing child mortality as well as enhancing the fight against HIV/ AIDS, malaria and other conditions. Kenya is presently battling the HIV/ AIDS epidemic and malaria is one of leading causes of death in Kenya. motherly health has lots of room for enhancement in order to reduce the mortality of babies and loss of motherly deaths.

Attainability to health care in Kenya is substantially substantiated by the gap between the fat and the poor citizens. The rich among the society are suitable to pay an redundant quantum to have their health care needs met meetly and presto while the poor have no option but to accept whatever care they admit, at whatever time the care is profited. The health care of these poor majorities is greatly minimized by the favouritism greatly showed to the rich nonages.

The poverty position in Kenya in a study conducted in the pastoral areas in Kenya in 2007 linking poverty situations to the geographical conditions was estimated to be at 45. This report showed that nearly half of the 44 million residers of Kenya live under a bone per day. This is original to living under Kenyan Sh105 a day( Okwi et al, 2012).