Safaricom And Samsung To Extend Communication Support To Frontline Health Workers

August 6, 2020

Over 5000 front-line health workers are set to continue receiving free communication data following a move by Safaricom to extend the service that has been ongoing since April.

The initiative will see an equivalent of 19 Terabytes of data, 10 million voice calls minutes and 33 million SMSs allocated to the front-line health workers.

This means each worker is set to continue receiving 12GB data, 600 minutes and 2000 SMSs for the next three months.

Chief Administrative Secretary in the Ministry of Health, Dr Rashid Abdi said the frontline workers play a huge role of defense and the extension of Safaricom’s support was a big boost to the containment efforts.

“The initiative will see an equivalent of 195 Terabytes of data, 10 million voice call minutes and 33 million SMSs allocated to 5,529 frontline health workers as identified by the Ministry of Health. Each health worker is set to continue receiving a monthly bundle consisting of 12GB data, 600 minutes and 2,000 SMSs for an additional three months,” read a statement from Safaricom.

Samsung will also offer 500 Samsung galaxy A2 smartphones worth 3.8M to the frontline health workers to help improve communication, monitoring and aid the movement of testing and care teams.