Challenges Facing Implementation of Public Healthcare Financing Strategies in Kenya

Abstract

The study was set to determine facing implementation of public healthcare financing strategies in Kenya. The objective of the study was to establish the challenges faced in the implementation of public healthcare financing strategies in the Kenya. The study adopted a case study research design within the Ministry of Medical Services. This method was most appropriate because it examined strategies already in place, the study units were also be able to provide more information. The study will aim at collecting information from respondents on their views and opinions in relation to challenges facing implementation of healthcare financing strategies in the Kenya. Primary data was collected using an interview guide. The data was analyzed using content analysis to establish the challenges faced in the implementation of public healthcare financing strategies in the Kenya. The study found that organizational system and procedures, culture and traditions, technology, leadership, human resources and funding were the main challenges faced in the implementation of public healthcare financing strategies in the Kenya. Legal framework was not a major challenge faced in the implementation of public healthcare financing strategies in the Kenya. Of the key challenges facing the implementation of public healthcare financing strategies in the Kenya, the study found out that the ministry has put in place measures to control them, that is, human resources challenges (employing more staff either on casual or permanent basis and capacity building through training), leadership challenges (ministry has liaised with donors to train members of Hospital Management Team (HMT) and also carried out country wide training of managers on leadership skills), organizational system and procedures (training hospital managers, put in place proper systems and use of committees in decision making process) and culture and tradition (ministry has organized training meeting focusing on customer care, introduced service charter, employed people with right skills, initiated transfer of officers from one work station to another and introduced grants and HMSF)