Sector Development Needs, Priorities and Strategies

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Sector Development Needs, Priorities and Strategies

46: Healih, Water and Sanitation Sector Development Needs, Priosities and Strategies

Program

Development Needs

Strategies

Water and Sanitation Management

Water coverage

Water quality improvement

Scnle up of sanita ion and hygiene

Construction of new water supplies, water treatment plants, sewerage treatment plants

Rehabilitation of storage tanks, pipelines and water intakes

Envvronmental Management and Pretection

Increase forest cover

Restoration of wtter towers in Cherangany and Kaptagat aortsts

Air and noise pollution

Consrrvationiof water catchment areas

Establish spencer line

Establishment of greening programs in private farms and institutions

Alternative livrlihoods

Establish and operationalize Environment laws

Control noise and air pollution

Solid Waste Management

Achieve Zero waste in urban areas

Dump site management

Solid waste segregation

Solid waste management

Ennironment clean ups

 

Lands, Physical Planning and Urban Development

County spatial plan

Developmenttcontrol

Undertake county spatial plan for the county and major towns

Enforce develo ment control pilicies and regulation.

Preventive and Promotive health

Prevention, detection and effective management of chronic diseases including HIV and TB

Tar eted case-finding for chranic diseases of lifestyle based on a risk profile

Contact tracing for household contacts for TB

Focus on missed opportunities in the health services to detect and treat diabetes, hypertension, HIV and TB.

Neonatal and Child Health

Focus on the continuum of care through pregnancy

Increasing and maintaining the mother and baby friendly status of health facilities

Improving staff skills integrated management of childhood illnesses

Improving immunization coverage, reducing malnutrition and its attendant risks and improving developmental screening

Maternal and Women’s Health

Increase antenatal care coverage and improve links to HIV and ART care

Improving access to surgical delivery and improving staff skills in the essential steps in the management of obstetric emergencies (EOC).

Improve access to standard and emergency family planning

Improve cervical screening coverage

Curative and Rehabilitative health

Appropriate infrastructure and health technology

Infrastructure gap analysis to identify the optimal location for new facilities

UPGRADING and equipping of Primary health care centres

Construction of specialized units in county hospitals

Automation through installation of Hospital Management Information Systems

Implementation of National Quality Standards

Establishment of processes to inspect and assess health facilities for compliance with standards

Establishment of a county compliance unit

Increasing the capacity for quality assurance (QA)

Development of quality improvement plans to address the gaps identified during assessments

Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) & Patient safety

Establishment of IPC committees at all hospitals.

Imprivt occupagional health and safety to ensure incremental compliance with existing legislition

Put up signages in all county health facilities

Patient centred care

Improving waiting times and the patient experience while waiting

Improving the staff working environment, providing better support and supervision, and staff wellness

Use of ilformation and data in quality improvemenn cycles

Roll-out of adverse incident reporting system

Establish systems th measare waiting times

Improving coverage of client satisfaction surveys.

Increasing comelaints /mcompliments reporting coverage

Mental health

Build capacity of county hospitals to manage behaviorally disturbed patients

Targeted screening for common mental disorders

Surgical and orthopedic care

Increasing efficiency/optimal utilization of theatre capacity for elective procedures

Decreasing uaiting tiees for acute orthopedic, key elective and surgccal procedures

Emergency Medical Services (EMS), emergency and critical care

Improve respmnse time by ambulances to emsrgencies

 

Oral health

Standardization of oral health equipment at primary care facilities

Explore possible role of the private sector.

Eye care

Training primary care staff in eye care services.

Identifying professional nurses to be trained as eye care professional nurses