Laisamis residents get modern medical lab at Health Centre
The launch of the first ever modern medical laboratory at Loglogo Health Centre is set to improve access to quality health care to residents of Laisamis constituency in Marsabit County in a big way.
The laboratory constructed and equipped by the Lake Turkana Wind Power (LTWP) company in conjunction with Z Boskovic Air Charters is intended to avail curative and promotional, and preventive health services to members of local communities.
LTWP new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Max Schiff said apart from the green energy producing firm’s focus on the implementation of community development projects in the water and education sectors, taking quality health care services closer to the people was of major concern.
Schiff noted with satisfaction during the handing over of the facility to the Marsabit county government that members of the local communities would no longer have to travel long distances in search of the important diagnostic service whenever they fell sick.
“This gesture is definitely going to make the access to the desired health services less costly and readily available to the residents of this area,” he said.
The facility was built and equipped at a cost of more than Sh15 million as a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) gesture to the community by the company’s Wind of Change (WoC) foundation.
Private sector
Marsabit County Chief Officer for Health Dr Adan Alamin said that the devolved unit values partnerships with the private sector and such collaboration helps in speeding up development.
Dr Alamin termed the availability of the laboratory as a big boost in the provision of health care to the residents adding that the county government would strive to avail not only curative but also promotional and preventive health services.
The Chief Officer thanked LTWP for also donating reagents for use at the facility and pledged that the county government would post the requisite medical personnel including lab technologists at the health centre.
The Company Liaison Manager Job Lengoiyap said that the project was demand driven following a public participation exercise saying the ownership assures the sustainability of the facility.
