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    "content": "(3) The Ministry has trained over 10,000 health care providers in the management of malaria countrywide, while 23 county malaria coordinators have so far undergone a malariology course to further enhance their capacity and ability to coordinate malaria control activities. Funds are available to train malaria coordinators in the remaining 24 counties by December, 2015; (4) The Ministry, in collaboration with the development partners, has continued to provide appropriate information to the public through print and electronic media. In addition, interpersonal communication between health workers and the population routinely takes place under the community health strategy focusing on disease prevention and control. (5) The Ministry, in collaboration with the counties, has continued to build and strengthen surveillance skills and knowledge among health care workers through appropriate trainings. This is premised on the knowledge that the ability and the capacity to detect and respond to the disease outbreak is of public health importance - including malaria - and is critical to disease prevention and control. So far, health workers from 16 counties have undergone intensive surveillance training and health personnel in the remaining counties will be trained by December, 2015; (6) The Ministry has continued to receive weekly surveillance reports from all the counties across the country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, regarding the level of coordination between county governments and the Ministry of Health in diseases prevention, although the Constitution of Kenya, 2010, has assigned the health function to both the national and county governments, it has also provided mechanisms for the coordination of health issues through the intergovernmental forum for health. In addition, counties have established disease based coordination structures that work closely with national health programmes in disease prevention and control. Through these structures, counties are able to quickly detect, report and respond to diseases of public health importance. HEALTH STATUS OF CHILDREN MISHANDLED BY MEDICAL STAFF IN BUSIA COUNTY Mr. Speaker, Sir, in respect to the medical status of children in Busia who suffered after they were administered with malaria drug, following media reports that 24 children developed partial paralysis after injection in Busia, the Ministry sent a multidisciplinary team of experts to investigate the occurrence on 16th July, 2015. In collaboration with county health personnel, the team was able to find and clinically asses 21 of the affected children."
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