Guided by the "Afya Yetu Jukumu letu -Our health, our responsibility" principle, the County Government of Meru is keen on providing better health care services. In this discourse, robust grassroots engagements in offsetting lifestyle and improper feeding habits related diseases have been initiated. This will be achieved through the following: Investing in public health education and preventive healthcare; Improving working environment for health sector personnel; Consulting and engaging with doctors and other health workers to ensure better working conditions; Decongesting the health facilities; Ensuring there are adequate and sustained drugs supply in all health centers and dispensaries; Establishing an ICU and Cancer Unit at Meru Level V Hospital and making it a top teaching and referral hospital as well as supporting all privately funded health facilities to improve their services. "My administration is keen to ensure that health facilities in the county are adequately equipped with drugs and that a fully functional ICU and Cancer Unit is established at the Meru Level V Hospital’’ Governor Kiraitu. "The Government, through my department, is committed to provision of better health services that are easily accessible, affordable, equitable, of high-quality and sustainable in line with the department’s mission and vision respectively." Said the Health CECM, Ms. Eunice Kobia. The County Government of Meru has put in place an auspicious plan which when implemented, will see the upgrading of the Meru Teaching and Referral Hospital from the current level V to level VI. And all the 14 level IV hospitals to level V in the County. This will greatly improve the County’s capacity for disease diagnosis and treatment and reduce to a minimum, the long journeys patients currently have to endure while seeking specialized treatment in Nairobi. Towards better healthcare provision in the County, the Governor and his deputy have recently presided over the groundbreaking of a modern ward block, a renal and intensive care unit while also commissioning a modern Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), as well as a state of the art Laparoscopic Tower at the Meru Teaching and Referral Hospital. The multi-million Laparoscopic Tower Unit that is able to carry out Minimal Access Surgical (MAS) procedure is one of its kind in the region and only the third in Kenya. The two top County bosses have recently launched the new Hospital Management Boards for Meru Level V and 14 Level 4 IV hospitals in the County. In their view, the hospital management boards are up to promoting good governance of public health facilities that will ensure efficiency in the exigencies of service, while executing the health department’s agenda. In addition, in the recent past, the Governor made a passionate appeal for the people to enlist as members of the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) that he noted will consequently reduce not only pocket financing of health services but also the increasing calls for "Medical Harambees.'' Already, the Governor has stressed on the need for Meru residents to register with the Hospital Insurer promising unemployed youth that his administration would pay half of the Ksh500 that is the monthly contribution by members.