The Kenyan Cabinet has approved a Ksh4.5 billion plan to construct 10 Mother and Child hospitals nationwide, aiming to significantly enhance maternal and neonatal healthcare services.

• The initiative, dubbed the Mother and Child Lifeline Initiative, involves a partnership between the government and Amsons Group.
• These hospitals will be constructed in various locations including Nairobi, Garissa, Embu, Kisumu, West Pokot, Uasin Gishu, Mombasa, Nakuru, Kwale, and Bomet.
• The Cabinet also endorsed the Kenya-United States Health Cooperation Framework and approved policies to strengthen protection for vulnerable families.

The Kenyan Cabinet has approved a new health cooperation framework with the United States to enhance disease surveillance and strengthen the public health system.

• $1.6 billion (KSh208 billion) will be invested by the United States over the next five years.
• Key figures involved include President William Ruto and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
• The agreement aims to improve disease surveillance, laboratory networks, and digital health systems, with funds going directly to Kenyan government health institutions.

Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi has called for robust international cooperation to combat the Ebola outbreak, emphasizing that global health emergencies require a unified approach.

• Mudavadi stressed that pandemics transcend borders and cannot be contained by unilateral action, advocating for collective responses over isolationism.
• Key figures involved include Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi and organizations like the World Health Organization and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
• Kenya has screened 168,762 travellers at entry points and has recorded no confirmed Ebola cases, while reinforcing surveillance and quarantine measures.