STORY: Kenya to distribute 100,000 kits for community health promoters
DATELINE: Sept. 27, 2023
LENGTH: 00:01:56
LOCATION: Nairobi
CATEGORY: HEALTH

SHOTLIST:
1. various of kits distribution
2. SOUNDBITE (English): WILLIAM RUTO, Kenyan President
3. various of kits distribution
4. various of people gathering

STORYLINE:

Kenyan President William Ruto on Monday flagged off the distribution of 100,000 kits that will be used by community health promoters across the country.

Ruto said the kits will be essential tools for household screening by the community health promoters. They will be at the center of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) under which the government seeks to focus on promotive and preventive health.

SOUNDBITE (English): WILLIAM RUTO, Kenyan President
"We are going to launch this program of community health promoters, we are launching a program that will see our community health promoters, number one, to have kits, every health promoter in Kenya, the 100,000 of them, each one of them, will be equipped by the government of Kenya with a kit that they can use for making sure that they can access every household in Kenya and we have split every community health promoter with 100 households in every part of the Republic of Kenya. Today we are starting that journey."

He noted that the use of well-equipped community health promoters will save the East African nation resources used in the treatment of diseases.

According to the Kenya president, about 70 percent of cases at the country's health facilities are due to preventable diseases that can be detected by community health promoters.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Nairobi.
(XHTV)