Patients with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Homa Bay county have urged the government to increase budgetary support for procurement of drugs for managing the diseases.
The patients noted that they were incurring heavy expenses acquiring the drugs from private chemists whenever the supplies run out in public health facilities.
They want the county government to create a special budget for purchasing drugs for their conditions in the forthcoming 2025/2026.
The NCDs include hypertension, diabetes, asthma, sickle cell and epilepsy among others.
