Okiya and the doctors complained that the State had unconstitutionally dismantled and transferred national health referral facilities from the national government to the county governments and had created chaos to the already set referral system. They argued that the distribution of functions of the two levels of governments as envisaged under the Constitution was meant to augment the national referral health system by creating a modern primary health care system administered locally within each county, without dismantling the national health referral system or replacing it with a county-based system. The AG urged that only two facilities, KNH and MTRH, qualify the description of national referral health facilities, and both were established by a consultative process as the only national referral hospitals. The remaining health facilities, he said, were listed as other hospitals. Level four to level six hospitals are listed as primary, secondary and tertiary hospitals, which mainly offer curative and rehabilitative services.

Source: Standard Digital May 30, 2020 19:56 UTC