Diverse health for quality services, Ministry of Health urged
The East African healthcare has urged the Ministry of health to develop centers with the aim of reducing the cost of health by matching its supplies with that of the local healthcare industry.
Speaking on Tuesday during the conference in Nairobi, Dr. Amit Thakker the CEO of Kenya Healthcare Federation said that the medical expertise is becoming more expensive to import hence more countries are growing keen on medical tourism.
“The East African healthcare market needs to develop competence and increase professional capacity by investing more in local talent. This will encourage and grow the confidence of the population in their own doctors,” said Thakker.
“This is not just a matter of paying our own home grown professionals well, though remuneration is a factor, but we must also build the health sector capacity in terms of facilities and equipment, he said.
He reiterated that there is still a negative attitude towards the developing private sector by senior specialists and high level civil servants in the Ministries of Health and the government in several African countries.
Speaking during the same meeting, Dr. Samuel Owere from the Ministry of Health said that Kenya imports health facilities from India that assist to treat patients suffering from various diseases more so cancer and non-communicable diseases.
“Health tourism can be strengthened by increasing human resource capacity in numbers and sharing of information,” said Owere.
He observed that the health tourism is a complex issue; hence the health sector cannot drive the agenda alone unless the government intervenes.
By Albert Bwana
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