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We must rethink the funding and place of Level 5 hospitals in Kenya

Sometime in 2012, before the General Election, a policy paper was distributed, I believe through then Health Minister Prof Anyang’ Nyong’o, proposing several ways in which the health sector would be managed in light of impending devolution.

One of the principal proposals was to convert the existing eleven High Volume (Level 5) hospitals to referral facilities so that they would then be managed by the national government.

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