Time flies with great content! Renew in to keep enjoying all our premium content.
Prime
How data gaps leave 39pc of health targets untracked
The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends 44.5 doctors, nurses and midwives per 10,000 people, but Kenya’s ratio stands at only 13.8 per 10,000 — a figure drawn from incomplete ministry data in 2020.
About 39 percent of Kenya's health indicators under Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG 3)—which aims to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all—remain unreported, quietly undermining the country's efforts to achieve the universal goals by 2030.
A policy brief from a project by Aga Khan University dubbed CHOICE Kenya, shows that the country currently only tracks 17 out of the 28 global health indicators, leaving 11 untracked due to data being missing, outdated or not disaggregated by gender, age or region—hiding real inequalities in access to care.
