{"id":18252,"date":"2020-11-28T20:22:57","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T20:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/kenya\/?p=18252"},"modified":"2020-11-28T20:22:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T20:22:57","slug":"counties-havent-received-covid-funds-for-3-months-says-ongwae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/counties-havent-received-covid-funds-for-3-months-says-ongwae","title":{"rendered":"Counties haven&#8217;t received Covid funds for 3 months, says Ongwae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Author:\u00a0<span class=\"bycolorpic\">Graham Kajilwa\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> Counties have no funds to buy Personal Protective Equipment or hire more healthcare workers, Kisii Governor James Ongwae has said.<\/p>\n<p>The governor, who is also chair of the Human Resource Committee in the Council of Governors, said for three months counties have not received a disbursement from the exchequer hence the national government should look into how counties will get PPE.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last time we received resources was in August. If we had resources, we would buy PPE directly from the market because procurement from Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (Kemsa) takes two to three weeks. But still, to buy from Kemsa you also need money, which we do not have,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The governor said counties have petitioned several times to have the disbursements done on time to no avail. \u201cSome of us have been forced to run to the banks for money. How do you recruit personnel when you pay staff with loans? Maybe the Senate can intervene,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>But Senator Beth Mugo, who is a member of the Senate Standing Committee on health probed the governor on how counties used money given to them for Covid-19 preparedness.<\/p>\n<p>Ongwae defended his colleagues, saying there were guidelines on how the money would be used and auditors were involved in the process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe money was well used. Most of it was used for development (setting up beds and facilities) than operations like getting PPE and commodities,\u201d he said. Yesterday&#8217;s update by Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe documented 6,158 samples, 780 of which tested positive. The total number of confirmed cases now stands at 80,102.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author:\u00a0Graham Kajilwa\u00a0 AfricaPress-Kenya: Counties have no funds to buy Personal Protective Equipment or hire more healthcare workers, Kisii Governor James Ongwae has said. The governor, who is also chair of the Human Resource Committee in the Council of Governors, said for three months counties have not received a disbursement from the exchequer hence the national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":18249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,2111,7,8,12],"tags":[1539,6649,447],"class_list":["post-18252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-coronavirus-in-kenya","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-covid-19","tag-kisii-governor-james-ongwae","tag-mutahi-kagwe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Counties haven&#039;t received Covid funds for 3 months, says Ongwae - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Counties have no funds to buy Personal Protective Equipment or hire more healthcare workers, Kisii Governor James Ongwae has said\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/counties-havent-received-covid-funds-for-3-months-says-ongwae\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Counties haven&#039;t received Covid funds for 3 months, says Ongwae\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Counties have no funds to buy Personal Protective Equipment or hire more healthcare workers, Kisii Governor James Ongwae has said\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/counties-havent-received-covid-funds-for-3-months-says-ongwae\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-11-28T20:22:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/11\/counties_havent_re5fbfe1729fbce.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"595\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"372\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/counties-havent-received-covid-funds-for-3-months-says-ongwae#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/counties-havent-received-covid-funds-for-3-months-says-ongwae\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Counties haven&#8217;t received Covid funds for 3 months, says Ongwae\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-11-28T20:22:57+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/counties-havent-received-covid-funds-for-3-months-says-ongwae\"},\"wordCount\":276,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/counties-havent-received-covid-funds-for-3-months-says-ongwae#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2020\/11\/counties_havent_re5fbfe1729fbce.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"COVID-19\",\"Kisii Governor James Ongwae\",\"Mutahi Kagwe\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Coronavirus in kenya\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/counties-havent-received-covid-funds-for-3-months-says-ongwae#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/counties-havent-received-covid-funds-for-3-months-says-ongwae\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/policy\/counties-havent-received-covid-funds-for-3-months-says-ongwae\",\"name\":\"Counties haven't received Covid funds for 3 months, says Ongwae - 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