This week on Friday we had the great pleasure and honor of hosting the leadership team of the Centre for Health Solutions (CHS) who visited the newly accredited ISO15189 certified DKL Central Referral Lab for a tour of our state-of-the-art greenfield one-of-its-kind homegrown ultramodern lab in Upper Hill. The CHS team was led by Dr Paul Wekesa CEO & Board Secretary, together with Dr Brenda Mungai Director TB & Lung Health, and Dr Lorraine Mugambi-Nyaboga Chief of Party for TB ARC II programme.

Established in 2010, CHS is a local not-for-profit organization that leverages local expertise and strategic partnerships to ensure implementation of evidence-informed solutions and interventions to existing and emerging public health concerns, working in partnership with government, donors, other stakeholders and local communities to complement and synergise the delivery of sustainable health services - particularly in the areas of HIV, TB and related illnesses.

I’ve had the immense privilege of previously working with CHA during their fledgling early years to strengthen the support for quality lab diagnostic work across the country through innovative solutions back then, and it is quite remarkable to see that the CHS leadership team remains enduring and growing 1½ decades after they started having impacted over 7 million Kenyan lives with their work.

Through the innovative, distributive and disruptive technologies and solutions that we’ve put in place at our homegrown proudly Kenyan @DKLDrKalebiLabs, I look forward to reconnecting with the CHS team engaging together with the DKL engaging in enhancing the existing work that CHS does and bringing in new ideas and innovative solutions that will expand and positively impact the landscape of diagnostic services in the areas of HIV and respiratory illnesses which CHS wish to widen in scope.

Thank you Centre for Health Solutions - Kenya (CHS) 🙏🏾