The Nandi County Government’s digitization of the health care and agri-business sectors has enabled women to embrace mobile service technology. According to Ruth Koech, the County Executive Committee Member in charge of Health, maternal health care has been digitized and pre-natal and post-natal care services are available through mobile services. Women under maternal care are now required to have mobile phones to monitor their health and that of their children. Koech said that with digital technology, maternal child health mortality rates have reduced by fifty percent.
“Cancer screening and its care have also been digitized in our level four hospitals and I call upon mothers to visit us for breast and cervical cancer screening services”, Koech added. The County Government of Nandi has entered into an agreement with a digital platform known as Health X, which will provide health care in the facilities and the comfort of people’s homes, workplaces and wherever one is.
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The Health X platform will be used to manage chronic illness, wellness and consultancy. Koech said high teenage pregnancy, high HIV infection rates among the youth and Gender-Based Violence remain key challenges in health matters. “We need to use technology to ensure access not only to health care but also to our medical records”, she said.
Meanwhile, the launch of public Wi-Fi at Kapsabet market by the ICT Cabinet Secretary Eliud Owalo, supported by the Nandi County Government, has excited women in business who now procure and sell their products in digital platforms. Women in business who spoke during a women stakeholders’ forum in Kapsabet town testified to the way business has completely changed with all their farm products being out-sourced through digital networks.
