MAKUENI COUNTY PILOTS REGISTRATION OF MAKUENI CARE BENEFICIARIES AHEAD OF COUNTYWIDE ROLLOUT.

The Makueni County Government has piloted the registration of beneficiaries for the proposed Makueni Care programme, also known as Mutula Care, as preparations intensify for a countywide rollout later this month.

The pilot exercise, conducted on Friday targeted residents in the Muumbuni cluster , covering 20 villages, and the Kikumini cluster, covering 10 villages in Muvau-Kikumini Ward.

During the exercise, residents identified and vetted the most needy and deserving members of their communities at the village level to benefit from the programme, which is aimed at advancing universal health coverage in the county.

The vetted beneficiaries will be onboarded onto the Makueni Care programme ahead of its official launch scheduled for March.

The exercise was led by Makueni County Executive Committee Member for Health Services, Joyce Mutua, and included mass registration for the Social Health Authority (SHA) as well as testing of the registration system to assess its efficiency and reliability.

She urged residents to actively participate in the registration drive, noting that higher registration and utilisation rates would translate into increased revenue allocations to the county.

She said enhanced SHA registration would strengthen the county’s health financing and support the sustainability of health services.

Mutua further encouraged residents to turn up in large numbers once the full rollout.

The registration exercise is being carried out in partnership with the Social Health Authority (SHA), with residents encouraged to enrol to enhance access to affordable healthcare services across the county.