County governments now have to directly acquire Personal Protective Equipment for their health workers, Health CS Mutahi Kagwe has said. Kagwe said this will help deal with shortage complaints from health workers in the counties. "The ministry has gone ahead to provide exemptions to county governments from procuring PPEs from Kemsa and been advised on the qualified suppliers," he said. "This decentralization of provision of PPEs should be a good thing and should now ease any county from complaining about lack of PPEs," he said. After the meeting, Uhuru in his address directed the Ministry of Health to retain retired ICU staff to support medical workers in the counties.

Source: The Star July 28, 2020 16:06 UTC