Every year on 28^th July, we mark World Hepatitis Day. The running call for this year’s celebration is to encourage every person from across the globe to act and raise awareness to “find the missing millions”.

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the social policy weaknesses of the devolved units of government as well as the absence of a coherent core across the different social development programmes of the National Government. For instance, the different social protection instruments implemented by the National Government but consumed at counties did not demonstrate a coordinated flow to be rapidly marshaled and deployed to address the pandemic-related crises.