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Shake Up For Healthcare Provision

June 2008 | Industry News
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Kenya's finance minister, Amos Kimunya, has delivered the 2008-2009 budget speech, in which he offered an improved public healthcare system. For the financial year from July 1 2008 to June 30 2009, the combined budget for the Ministry of Medical Services and the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation will be KES32.9bn (US$517mn). Of this, recurring expenses will account for 77% of the ministries' budgets, with the remainder used for the development of