This archive report was first published on 15 July 2020.
As the world grapples with the Covid-19 pandemic, Kenya's health services have been exposed for their inadequacies, necessitating a radical shift in policy and financing to address the pandemic and ongoing healthcare needs.
Published on July 16, 2020, by STEVE ADUDANS, the article highlights the need for a concerted effort to cultivate training, research, and capacity in public health to develop and maintain a prepared cadre of public health experts and professionals.
According to African health experts, the chronic lack of investment in healthcare infrastructure and equipment has made it harder for the country to retain skilled healthcare workers, provide essential medicines, and reduce the mortality rates of perennial diseases like malaria.
The pandemic has brought to bear the urgency of a strong and concerted effort to develop and maintain a prepared cadre of public health experts and professionals, emphasizing public health approaches and knowledge in other professions, bolstering multi-professional teams and cross-discipline collaboration.
Reopening societies and returning to some degree of normality while remaining vigilant for potential new waves of outbreaks will require the united efforts of the entirety of the multi-professional workforce, including a radical shift in health policy from one that focuses on medical outcomes to one that focuses on the broader concept of inclusive health.
