Browsing: Blood transfusion in Kenya

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  • The Kenyan government said it had raised funding for the National Blood Transfusion Service Unit
  • The Ministry of Health said funding had raised by 738 per cent from KSh 120 million ($1 million ) in the Financial Year 2017/18 to KSh 886 million ($7.5 million) in the Financial Year 2021/22
  • Health Principal Secretary Susan Mochache said that increased budgetary allocation to the unit, and structural reforms, had yielded remarkable improvement in blood transfusion services

The Kenyan government said it had raised funding to the National Blood Transfusion Service Unit by 738 per cent from KSh 120 million ($1 million ) in the Financial Year 2017/18 to KSh 886 million ($7.5 million ) in the Financial Year 2021/22.

In a statement sent to The Exchange Africa, the country’s ministry of health further indicated that they had been leveraging UHC funds with an additional KSh 700 million ($5.9 million) for blood services.…