Machakos County Government has trained over 2,500 Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) and 250 Community Health Units (CHU) that will go along way in health advocacy across the county.
Mutua said having such volunteers will ensure residents deep in the villages get good accessible health care and important lifestyle information that will help them curb diseases.
"Having these volunteers will ensure that wananchi who are deep in the villages are kept abreast with new health information, know more about lifestyle diseases like hypertension, diabetes and understand the importance of hospital deliveries among other things," Mutua said.
He spoke during the unveiling exercise of the community health volunteers at Kenyatta Stadium in Machakos town on Tuesday.
Accompanied with national government's representatives, the governor met the volunteers to elaborate on his vision for a healthy Machakos.
Mutua urged the volunteers to join his clarion on Universal Health Coverage registration in the villages
"My people deserve an efficient health system and I will not condone any sabotage within my government concerning UHC," Mutua said
He urged all Machakos residents to register and be part of the program as he plans to officially launch it.
"Let's take our health seriously because we have one life to live and a heathy nation is a productive nation," he added.
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