KAKAMEGA REVENUE CHIEF CALLS FOR AUTOMATION OF ALL HOSPITAL SERVICES

Public health facilities across the County lose revenue due to non-compliance to the laid down automation systems.

It is against this backdrop that the Kakamega County Revenue Agency (KCRA) Chief Revenue Administrator (CRA) Eng. Joseck Maloba Friday held a familiarization and consultative meeting with Revenue Officers attached to the Kakamega General and Referral Hospital (CGH) to review the Agency’s performance at the County’s largest heath facility; a crucial facility with regards to actualization of Governor Fernandes Barasa’s health-care agenda.

In his address to the officers, Eng. Maloba asserted that to boost revenue collection in the 16 health facilities across the County, the human resource personnel have to comply with the government’s directive to utilize existing automated systems which will in addition to boosting revenue, also curb theft of pharms and non-pharms. In partnership with the hospital administration, the CRA directed revenue officers to inventorize all supplies and attach them to the relevant users to eliminate inefficiencies occasioned by system non-compliance.

The County’s revenue target this financial year stands at Ksh 3.3 Billion with the projected health sector target being Ksh 1.1 Billion; spread across various streams among them Hospital fees, Ambulance services, Social Health Authority (SHA), Public Health remittances as well as the NHIF. The County General Hospital revenue target is Ksh 542 Million.

The Revenue Officers mentioned waivers, manual processes, inconsistent supply of pharms and non-pharms and recurrent health equipment breakdowns as some of the challenges affecting revenue collection and service delivery at the referral facility.

The forum marked the culmination of similar meetings held with Revenue Officers in all the 12 Sub-Counties to improve efficiency in the Agency.

Present were staff from the KCRA led by the Agency’s Human Resource Officer Ms Jackline Otsieno.