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Elgeyo Marakwet County has two district hospitals, six sub-district hospitals, one mission hospital, 16 health centers, 79 dispensaries, 10 private clinics, and 12 community units in the county. These provide varied levels of service with health centres and dispensaries providing most of the primary health care services. Iten district hospital, the biggest facility in the county, is ill-equipped to provide most referral and specialized services, and these are referred to high volume facilities like MTRH in Eldoret. The existing facilities are not able to sufficiently handle the growing populace and the county government’s plan to support the health sector should consider creation of new health facilities across the country and elevation of existing ones to such standards that will allow them provide required services. This will reduce the distances travelled by the populace in search of healthcare due to local inadequacies; the current average distance to a health facility being 8 km. Table 6 shows the distribution of health facilities among the sub-counties while Table 6b in the appendix gives the services provided by the different health care units by level.

 

 

Table 6: Distribution of health facilities by sub-county