Health Act No 21 of 2017▤
Private health services
(1) The Cabinet Secretary shall pursue strategies conducive to the development and regulation of private health services and their…
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Bank account
(1) The National Treasury shall, facilitate the opening and maintenance of bank accounts by the county treasuries, for purposes of…
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Health finance
(1) The department of health shall ensure progressive financial access to universal health coverage by taking measures that includ…
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Kenya National Blood Transfusion Service
(1) There shall be established by an Act of Parliament, a body to be known as the Kenya National Blood Transfusion Service. (2) Th…
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Postmortem
(1) Subject to subsection (2), a post mortem examination of the body of a deceased person may be conducted if— (a) the person when…
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Revocation
A donor may, prior to the transplantation of the relevant organ into the donee, revoke a donation in the same way in which it was…
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Donation purposes
(1) A donation under section 83 may only be made for— (a) the purposes of the training of students in health sciences; (b) the pur…
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Making of wills
(1) (a) A person who is competent to make a will may— in the will; or in a document signed by him or her in the presence of at lea…
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Human organs transplantation
(1) No person shall remove tissue or gametes from a human being for transplantation in another human being or carry out the transp…
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Referral
The national government department of health shall develop policy guidelines for referral mechanisms and a system of referrals fro…
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Charges
The charges levied on the practice of traditional medicine shall be approved by the Authority in consultation with statutory bodie…
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Standardization
The national government department for health shall, in consultation with key stakeholders develop policies for standardization of…
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Documentation and mapping
The regulatory body shall institute measures for documentation and mapping of traditional and alternative medicine practice and th…
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Regulation of practice on traditional medicine
(1) There shall be established regulatory body by an Act of Parliament, to regulate the practice of traditional medicine and alter…
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Promotion of practice
(1) The national government department of health shall formulate policies to guide the practice of traditional and alternative med…
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Mental health
There shall be established by an Act of Parliament, legislation to— (a) protect the rights of any individual suffering from any me…
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Provision of break intervals for nursing employees
(1) An employer shall grant all nursing employees break intervals in addition to the regular times off for meals to breast feed or…
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Lactation stations in the workplace
(1) All employers shall in the workplace establish lactation stations which shall be adequately provided with necessary equipment…
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Amendment of Cap. 242
The Public Health Act (Cap. 242) is amended by deleting the expression "Director of Medical Services" and substituting therefor th…
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Policies
Pursuant to meeting the objects set out in section 68, the national government department of health shall formulate national strat…
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Public and environmental health
(1) The National health system shall devise and implement measures to promote health and to counter influences having an adverse e…
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Procurement of health products and technologies
(1) The procurement for the public health services of health products and technologies shall be undertaken in line with the Public…
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Standards
Any medicine, vaccine or other health product and technology intended for sale to members of the public shall be eligible for lice…
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Licences
(1) No person, firm or institution may engage in one or more of the activitiesspecified in section 63(1) whether by way of trade o…
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