A resident doctor has been posted to the Subukia health centre following the growing demand for specialized treatment in the facility.
The doctor will serve the area’s population of more than 100,000 people.
Subukia Member of County Assembly (MCA), Peter Njoroge Mwanjo, said the doctor’s posting will see most patients who were previously referred to Nakuru and Nyahururu attended to in Subukia.
The move to have a doctor in the facility started two months ago in efforts that were led by the then acting county healthy executive Samuel Gitau and other health officials in the area.
Mwanjo added that the county assembly has promised to purchase a four wheel drive ambulance for the health centre. The ambulance will serve parts of lower Subukia which have a poor road network.
The MCA also revealed that the health centre will be upgraded once plans are finalised.
‘‘The health centre management has now formed a task force to prepare a work plan that will see the facility upgraded to a sub-district hospital. Previous efforts to do the same failed due to politics and infighting among committee members,'' said Mwanjo.
Recently an ultra-modern kitchen was built at the hospital. The Subukia Constituency Development Fund (CDF) funded the project.