Health Facilities in Kenya
On 4th February, 2020 the Government of Kenya published a list of health facilities within the country. The Kenya Gazette issue is available here. The notice gives details on levels/categories of health facilities, the type and description of facilities under each level as well as the services that would be expected to be offered by such a facility. The table below gives a summary of the various levels and type of facilities under each.
Health facilities categories
| Categoriziation | Facility |
|---|---|
| Level 1 | Community Health Facility |
| Level 2 | Medical Clinic |
| Dental Clinic | |
| Dispensary/Faith Based organizations | |
| Mobile Clinic | |
| Eye Clinic | |
| Level 3A | Basic Health Centre |
| Level 3B | Comprehensive Health Centre |
| Medical or Dental Centre | |
| Funeral Home | |
| Nursing Home or Cottage Home | |
| Maternity Home | |
| Level 4 | County Hospital or Intership Training Centre |
| Specialized Hospital | |
| Level 5 | Country Referral Hospital |
| Level 6 | National Referral and Teaching Hospitals and Specialized Hospital |
The second schedule of the notice published the list of facility by county giving the name, level and ownership. From the notice, a list of 9064 health facilities are listed. Besides 2 cases being empty, some duplicates were also found which were excluded from the summaries below.
Total number of health facilities
After exclusion of identified duplicates and empty rows, a total of 9023 health facilities was identified. County Governments owned 50.6% of all the health facilities, 44.6% of the health facilities are private owned. Over 90% of the facilities were within Level 2 and Level 3B.
Health facilities by county
Table 2 shows top 10 counties by the total number of health facilities. Nairobi County has the highest number of health facilities (745) which is equivalent to 8.3% of the total number of health facilities. Table 3 shows 10 counties with the lowest number of health facilities. Lamu County had the lowest number with only 23 health facilities which is less than 1% of the total number of health facilities within the country.
| county | Number | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Nairobi County | 745 | 8.26 |
| Meru County | 403 | 4.47 |
| Nakuru County | 363 | 4.02 |
| Kakamega County | 339 | 3.76 |
| Kitui County | 339 | 3.76 |
| Machakos County | 334 | 3.70 |
| Kiambu County | 285 | 3.16 |
| Kisumu County | 275 | 3.05 |
| Kajiado County | 264 | 2.93 |
| Uasin Gishu County | 261 | 2.89 |
| county | Number | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Busia County | 121 | 1.34 |
| Elgeyo Marakwet County | 105 | 1.16 |
| Nyandarua County | 105 | 1.16 |
| Taita Taveta County | 101 | 1.12 |
| Marsabit County | 100 | 1.11 |
| Mandera County | 98 | 1.09 |
| Isiolo County | 91 | 1.01 |
| Samburu County | 85 | 0.94 |
| Tana River County | 59 | 0.65 |
| Lamu County | 23 | 0.25 |
Health facilities by county, ownership and level
Disclaimer
The summaries and graphs shown here are based on the data within the Gazette notice above.
I have not looked at the overlap or difference between the data used here and data found in: Kenya Master Health Facility List
