Phewks.. Thanks Kaigangio.

Atleast somebody who gets what some of us are trying to argue out.
Whats the purpose of Ambulances that will come get stuck at the Nyayo stadium roundabout after a bumpy ride from a village in Yatta?
What if all 70 of them arrived at Kenyatta at the same time. does Kenyatta have the capacity to handle 70 emergencies? The bills that follow?

Infact for me i would have said he starts with the roads first. Even if it meant a good portion of the year's county budget goes to improving of roads. The value of the entire land in Machakos county would triple.
Access would attract all sorts of investors. from schools to health facilities to Nairobbers tied of living in this city.

As the roads are being upgraded, he should be flooding the media with ground breaking ceremonies of constructions (health facilities) et al.
The stadiums and parks angeachia media to find out for themselves as he talks to Muthoni the drama queen and King'ang'i to host their events there for free.

But i understand. Kenyans are yearning for a success story. something that works. and they want to create one. sadly its a Communications Dr. giving us the much needed PR

@Kaigangio, What you don't know, ask.
Which Machakos are you talking about? People suffer coz they can't access even the health facilities within the division, more so pregnant women.

But for you, i gather one must die to deserve an ambulance.

I'm happy with my governor.
I'm sure you are so happy with yours and that's why you want Mutua to improve. He will, give him time.

All these things people are busy shouting priority are underway. Kwani watu hawajui kusoma jamaneni?

@Poundfoolish. If its nothing personal against Mutua, know this;

Rehabilitation of health facilities is going on[my village health center to begin with].

Roads are being graded and plans for bridges where necessary are being worked on.

That Masaku park will draw in more publicity than the roads and health centers being built which you didn't know of.

What you want for people of Masaku, make it a point to all other counties.

Majority of us Masaku people are happy with our governor and we don't get it, with "foreigners" telling us what's best for us.
You are behaving like the Mzungu, always trying to tell the African what and how to do it.

Lastly i would like to know from you, WHO IS YOUR GOVERNOR?

There is nothing wrong to supplement the central govt efforts.If the COB approves the expenditure and he does proper accounting there is nothing to nail him on.

On the price variance between budgeted and actual; I consider it a positive variance and hence it should cause alarm or do you want to say that you expected the actual to exceed the budgeted so as not to raise queries?

You see guys I can confidently tell you for sure how important a local dispensary is, not the damn ambulance, as I have been treated there before, not once or twice but many times...

I remember very well that during those days in our youth age when the local dispensaries were fully equipped with drugs, a doctor, a clinical officer and nurses plus the relevant physical attributes of a health centre, we did not need to travel all the way from Elburgon to Nakuru General Hospital for referral treatment.

Almost all the health ailments were tackled at the dispensary level and the referral hospital did not have any intensive use of the ambulance. Besides the doctors in the dispensary could make their own assessment on a patient in order to decide whether he/she needed further treatment. At this point the dispensary admin would make arrangements for the ambulance from the referral hospital if it was needed...

All I am trying to say here is this, why not concentrate on that small 10 roomed dispensary first in order to either minimise the probability of the patient getting traumatised and health deterioration arising from that bumpy journey to the hospital or unnecessary use of an ambulance. From what I am reading here, it appears that those places with no dispensaries will need the ambulance to take the patients and other patients to be to referral hospital even for ailments which requires no ambulance.Yes? No?

Nobody is saying Mutua has done badly by buying the ambulance fleet, but the question is will that ambulance improve the health of those people in regions without dispensaries?

Looking at the positive side of things here.
I see a massive creation of employment with the neat looking nurses and drivers of those ambulances, meanwhile back in my village, someone died on a wheelbarrow trying to get to the dispensary.

I wouldn't care how much he has stolen but atleast he has done something, the more Nairobians visit that park more money for his county, creates business for the locals.

My governor is so useless, he only increased parking fees, i envy the people of Machakos, nitahamia huko.

As for his order of priority, he is a PR person, and a politician, lest you forget.

It is true most deaths occur in the wards.

It is true the health facilities and health personnel deserved more prioritised attention to improve health care.

And unless an ambulance is equipped like a mobile ICU (like those AAR or Red Cross ones) with qualified EMTs then it is an absolute waste of public funds.

Guys will be idle and start sexing each other in the ambulances creating yet another problem!

Angelica, Inaonekana unapenda hii mambo sana