Kenya Medical Supplies Authority is set to transition to the next level with the scheduled adoption of a new organisational structure.
KEMSA Chairperson Mary Mwadime said the authority is all set to adopt a recently designed performance and service-oriented organisational structure to ensure compliance with oversight requirements by the end of this month.
She said the transformation was followed by the conclusion of the legally defined one-month engagement period for organisations.
"As part of the organisational structure adoption, KEMSA will also advertise all the new functions early next week, paving the way for a competitive recruitment process," she said.
Mwadime said the structure will provide the necessary motivation to guide the Authority's transformation into an effective Health Products and Technologies (HPTs) organisation.
Mwadime, in a message delivered on her behalf by the Authority’s CEO Terry Ramadhani, said the key objective of the KEMSA reforms is to address challenges in the national supply chain authority.
The challenges, she said, are being handled by establishing end-to-end visibility of health products and strengthening accountability by reporting at all levels of the supply chain.
"The new performance and service-oriented structure is an improvement to the current organisational framework and complies with all the relevant public sector human resource management regulations," Mwadime said.
She said the new organisational structure was designed to improve the Authority's performance and boost operating efficiencies, as it features redefined roles and functions aligned with the Authority's statutory mandate.
The redefinition of functions, she said, has been undertaken to ensure operational agility due to the merger of some departments and the functional repurposing of roles to align them to the KEMSA strategic plan.
She added that the redefined roles formed by merging some positions and creating new functions based on the operational needs of the Authority would inadvertently result in staff redundancy.
She confirmed that a psychosocial support process, financial literacy training, and career repurposing guidance are underway to provide all staff members with the necessary transition support.
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