Paper Was Wrong On Health Budgets

Last week, the Standard generated considerable heat with a series on county health budgets. One article was titled “Alarm as 30 Counties Slash Health Budgets.” Another lauded Kisii county for high spending and skewers Tharaka Nithi, Nyeri and Homa Bay for stinginess in their health allocations. The Standard deserves commendation for actually writing any story at all comparing county budgets. This story is several months overdue and no other major news outlet has done the hard work of collecting and analyzing the available budget information and comparing to estimates of how much was spent...