UN Volunteer Health Experts deployed to help Kenya fight COVID-19

This partnership complements the government’s national pandemic response, as well as county-level responses, coordinated through the Ministry of Devolution and Arid and Semi-Arid Lands and the Council of Governors. The 50 UN Volunteer Health Experts were recruited from the communities they will serve by UNDP, UNV and the County Public Service Boards.

The UN Volunteers have healthcare experience and will be deployed to 14 counties identified by the Ministry of Health, namely Kakamega, Busia, Garissa, Kajiado, Machakos, Kilifi, Kiambu, Taita Taveta, Wajir, Kisumu, Migori, Mandera, Uasin Gishu and Nairobi counties.

They will take up different roles, such as Clinical Officers, Nursing Officers, Public Health Officers and Laboratory Technicians, and will also support social protection programmes in their counties.

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Some of the UN Volunter Health Experts with UNDP in Kenya. ©UNV, 2020