Nakuru County has launched a large-scale digital health transformation that will result in the installation of high-speed internet in its Level 4 and 5 hospitals.
The initiative, a joint effort by the County Department of Health Services, the Ministry of Health Digital Health Team, Safaricom and Konvergenz Co., aims at modernizing public hospitals and improving service delivery.
The ongoing baseline assessment survey for ICT infrastructure has so far covered Nakuru PGH, Annex, Bondeni, Langalanga, Mirugi Kariuki, Bahati, Subukia and Kabazi sub-county hospitals, according to County Health ICT Coordinator Grace Wangeci. "The objective is to install Safaricom Fibre Internet and Structured Local Area Networks (LANs), forming the backbone for all digital health systems under implementation," said Wangeci.
The project is part of Governor Susan Kihika's digital transformation agenda, a key component of her manifesto aimed at automating healthcare services to enhance efficiency and patient care.
