IHRC KENYA RATES KENYAN HEALTH STANDARDS AND PRACTICES LOW
Mindful that it is at the heart of top priority for health coverage to ensure that everyone should have access to the health services they need, when and where they need them, without suffering financial hardship, the IHRC Kenya has made a report on the necessity for the health authorities in Kenya to strengthen the country’s healthcare system.
The report signed by Mutavi Evans Mutavi, the IHRC Kenya Coordinator/Special Envoy emphasizes the fact that many people in Kenya get sick and die just because they are poor, or because they cannot access the health services they need. Mr. Mutavi higlighted several times that health services in Kenya have suffered neglect by the government and the health authorities are lacking new insights on health policies and practices because they have shown serious ineptitude to connect other basic human rights including access to safe drinking water and sanitation, nutritious foods, adequate housing, education and safe working conditions to the healthcare issues in Kenya.
This is why the United Nations promotes the idea of people-centered care; it is the embodiment of human rights in the practice of healthcare. Following a scheduled meeting in which the report of the IHRC Kenya was deliberated upon, the Director/Ambassador of the IHRC Africa Region HQ, H.E Dr. Tivlumun Innocent Ahure remarked that severally both the United Nations and the World Health Organization have held that the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic or social condition. Dr. Ahure said he will begin a series of engagements with the authorities in Kenya as a result of the damming verdict to ensure that Kenyans have access to this basic human right – health is a fundamental human right. He stated further that the IHRC took the investigative report of Mr.
Mutavi on Health in the Republic of Kenya to be a thorough presentation of the issues of protection of the rights of the Kenya people. H.E Dr. Tivlumun Innocent Ahure relying on the perspectives which the UN supports with regards to the physical, mental, and psychological health of everyone described the IHRC Kenya’s disturbing and worrisome health report as a crime by the government in Kenya against the people.
Also, the government has failed to provide the oversight needed to ensure that the health institutions do more to adequately respond to the yearnings of the people but instead make claims that the health sector issues are receiving priority consideration; this is leadership survival by creating deceitful images. “It is my aspiration that health finally will be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for.” —United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan
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