LG Electronics has donated five solar-powered refrigerators worth ksh2.2 million to West Pokot County through World Vision Kenya. The donation targets seven health facilities experiencing challenges maintaining a cold chain system for laboratory of reagents, pharmaceuticals and vaccines.
The health facilities will each receive a fridge that will provide fridges to store vaccines and other medical equipment with the aim of improving immunization coverage among children under five years and pregnant and lactating women. The new refrigerators were developed in response to absence of power supply in some areas, erratic power supply and extended power cuts in most parts of the country that often leaves home appliances such as refrigerators ineffective.
The health facilities benefiting from this donation cover all the four sub-counties within west Pokot County. Each of these health facilities (Kasei Health Facility in Pokot North, Kauriong in Pokot North, Nachecheyet and Chepnyal Health facilities in West Pokot and Nyag’aita Health Facility in Pokot Central) will each get one fridge. “We manufacture products that fit the needs of our consumers and this donation is another cutting-edge technological innovation based on customers’ insights and the need to provide human-centric technological solutions,” said Tae-Ick Son, the Managing Director LG East and Central Africa.
Mr Son said the new off-grid power supply fridge comes with an LG Inverter Compressor that adjusts cooling power in response to the amount of medical supplies you load in the refrigerator which provides efficient energy consumption. “Cooling power is controlled automatically according to the internal and external temperature conditions of the refrigerator,” he added.
The new off-grid power supply refrigerator is 36 percent more energy efficient than traditional models. World Vision has been implementing several development projects within West Pokot County. Up to early this year the organisation has been running three Area Development Programme (ADP) in the county.
World Vision has also supported the formation and strengthening of seven community units improving provision of community health services to more than 7,000 households. World vision has also supported the Ministry of health in West Pokot County with equipment’s for health facilities worth Sh1.6 million.
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