Kenya has reaffirmed its commitment to building resilient and people-centred health systems through integrated primary healthcare reforms during a high-level side event on the sidelines of the 79th World Health Assembly in Geneva.
Speaking during the session on “Financing and Integrated Care as Pathways to People-Centered Universal Health Coverage,” Principal Secretary for Medical Services Dr Ouma Oluga said Kenya’s experience shows that effective integration goes beyond policy commitments and requires aligning financing, governance, workforce capacity, digital systems and community engagement around patients’ needs.
Oluga said Kenya has shifted from fragmented disease-specific programmes to integrated service delivery models that allow patients to access services such as HIV, TB, malaria, maternal health, mental health and non-communicable disease care within primary healthcare platforms.
