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Involve community health workers and village leaders to facilitate emergency medical attention during curfew

The Alma Ata declaration of 1978 underscored the importance of Primary Health Care (PHC) as a component of Universal Health Coverage. In Kenya, a signatory to that declaration does value the role of PHC in healthcare delivery. As such, our health care system is arranged in 6 levels of increasing volume and complexity. 

Level 1 is composed of the community health volunteers incorporating the community members. The dispensary is at level II; Health Centre is Level III, with the Subcounty Hospital being level IV. The County Referral Hospitals are at level V while level VI is composed of national referral hospitals. 

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