- Section 92 of Health Act No 21 of 2017: Partnership agreements
(1) Where appropriate, and subject to the provisions of the Public Private Partnerships Act (No. 15 of 2013), the Cabinet Secretary and the County Governors shall be entitled to enter into partnership agreements with companies operating in the private sector in order to develop specific services or...
- Section 93 of Health Act No 21 of 2017: Establishment of the National Health Research Committee
(1) There shall be established by the Cabinet Secretary, a National Health Research Committee which shall be a technical committee.
(2) The membership of the Committee shall be as provided for under section 94 and shall consist of not more than eleven members appointed by the Cabinet Secretary.
- Section 94 of Health Act No 21 of 2017: Membership
The membership of the Committee established under this section shall as much as possible reflect ethnic, gender, county and regional balance and shall include membership drawn from the following—
(a) the chairperson who shall be a distinguished health researcher and renowned in a health...
- Section 95 of Health Act No 21 of 2017: Term of office
(1) The term of office of the Chairperson shall be five years, renewable for one further term of five years.
(2) The chairperson may resign through a letter addressed to the Cabinet Secretary.
(3) A member of the Committee shall hold office for a term of three years, renewable for one further term...
- Section 96 of Health Act No 21 of 2017: Functions of the Committee
(1) The Committee shall make recommendations on the development on the national research for health policy and on the various priorities to be accorded in the area of research for health in the light of current knowledge and needs, recognized priorities and economic resources.
(2) In identifying...
- Section 97 of Health Act No 21 of 2017: Institute
(1) The Kenya Medical Research Institute established under the Science and Technology Act (Cap. 250) shall review its programmes to optimally attune to the health interests of the population and the overall programme of health research.
(2) The Committee shall collaborate with other research...
- Section 98 of Health Act No 21 of 2017: Procedures
Except as may be provided in the Fourth Schedule, the Committee may regulate its own procedure.
- Section 99 of Health Act No 21 of 2017: Research Approval
(1) Where medical and scientific research is to be conducted on human subjects, details shall in all cases be submitted as per the regulations articulated under the Commission for Science, Technology and Innovation established under the Science and Technology Act (Cap. 250).
(2) The Committee shall...
- Section 100 of Health Act No 21 of 2017: Minors
(1) Where research or experimentation is to be conducted on a minor for a therapeutic purpose, the research or experimentation may only be conducted— (a) if it is in the best interest of the minor;
(b) in such manner and on such conditions as may be prescribed; and
(c) with the informed written...
- Section 101 of Health Act No 21 of 2017: Research budget
Having regard to the necessity of both scientific and policy research in the field of health in Kenya, a portion of not less than thirty per cent of the National Research Fund shall be allocated for health research.
- Section 102 of Health Act No 21 of 2017: Donor support and collaborative arrangements
Notwithstanding the responsibility of national government under section 92 of this Act, non-governmental and international organizations may cooperate with research institutions including the Kenya Medical Research Institute, universities and health institutions with approval from the Committee in...
- Section 103 of Health Act No 21 of 2017: E—health
E—Health shall be a recognized mode of health service.
- Section 104 of Health Act No 21 of 2017: E—legislation
The Cabinet Secretary shall, within three years of the operation of this Act, ensure the enactment of legislation that provides for among other things—
(a) administration of health information banks including interoperability framework, data interchange and security;
(b) collection and use of...
- Section 105 of Health Act No 21 of 2017: Health information system
(1) The Ministry of health shall facilitate the establishment and maintenance of a comprehensive integrated health information system.
(2) The Cabinet Secretary in consultation with the Director General may, for the purpose of creating, maintaining or adapting databases within the national health...
- Section 106 of Health Act No 21 of 2017: Collaboration
(1) While the Cabinet Secretary responsible for health shall bear primary responsibility for this Act, the respective levels of government and other agencies of government shall collaborate, consult and enter into agreements for the better carrying out of the provisions of this Act.
(2) Without...
- Section 107 of Health Act No 21 of 2017: Training
(1) The establishment, management and maintenance of institutions for the training of all categories of health professionals shall be the subject of national policy providing for collaboration, consultation and cooperation between the state department responsible for education, science, technology...
- Section 108 of Health Act No 21 of 2017: Fields of collaboration
Subject to section 106, the fields in which the need for collaboration, consultation and cooperation shall be necessary include, though not exclusively, those that deal with matters relating to—
(a) health workers welfare;
(b) health aspects of environmental protection;
(c) issues of animal...
- Section 109 of Health Act No 21 of 2017: Existing laws
(1) Except to the extent that this Act expressly provides to the contrary, all rightsand obligations, however arising, of the Government and subsisting immediately before the effective date shall continue as rights and obligations of the national and county governments as assigned under this...
- Section 110 of Health Act No 21 of 2017: Public service
(1) Any public officer appointed by the Public Service Commission in exercise of its constitutional powers and functions before the coming to effect of this Act and is serving under the National Government and in a county before the constitution of that county government shall be deemed to be in the...
- Section 111 of Health Act No 21 of 2017: General penalty
(1) A person convicted of an offence under this Act for which no penalty is provided shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding two million shillings or to imprisonment for a term of three months, or both.
(2) An act or commission which is an offence under this Act or any regulations...
- Section 112 of Health Act No 21 of 2017: Regulations
The Cabinet Secretary in consultation with the Director General shall make regulations generally for the better carrying out of the provisions of this Act and without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Cabinet Secretary may make regulations for—
(a) the fees to be paid to access services...