By MN Reporter

Health outreaches have been praised for improving access to services in the community.

According to health practitioners, such initiatives as medical camps were used to strengthen community health systems by bringing services closer to the people.

Uriri sub-county nursing officer Andrew Amollo said such initiatives helped to bridge gaps that denied locals access to quality health services in the region.

He was speaking after a medical camp organized by well-wishers at Sigira village in South Kanyamkago ward in Uriri Constituency, Migori County.

On his part, Uriri health promotion officer Edward Otieno said the medical camp saw many adolescents and youth access medical services, key among them reproductive health services.

Otieno said youth and adolescents shy from visiting health facilities and this had seen the region record a high number of teenage pregnancies.

A spot check during the medical camp revealed that most locals do not visit hospitals because of the distance and high medical bills they are slapped with if they visit them.

John Roche, the chairman of Sigira Meducamp Initiative who organized the camp said they will offer more such events to terminally support the community health management in the region.  

But area Member Of County Assembly Graham Kagali while praising the initiative asked leaders to speared the strengthening of health systems in their respective regions.

Kagali noted that locals had resorted to seek harmful traditional medication as they complained receiving poor services from public health institutions.

The MCA said he will task Migori County government to ensure facilities have basic commodities such as drugs as a way of improving the faith of locals in public health facilities.