Health Act, 2017 (No. 21 of 2017).

This Act concerns human health in Kenya involving also issues regarding animal health, water and the environment and food. It establishes the Kenya Health Professions Oversight Authority, the National Research for Health Committee and the Health Sector Inter-Governmental Consultative Forum. The objects of this Act are to— Objects of the Act include, amongst others, protection, promotion and fulfilment of the rights of children to basic nutrition and health care services contemplated in Articles 43(1) (c) and 53(1) (c) of the Constitution. The national health system shall ensure that measures for managing environmental risk factors to curtail occurrence and distribution of diseases are put in place and implemented. In particular such measures shall target, amongst other: (a) the reduction of disease burden arising from poor environmental hygiene, sanitation, occupational exposure and environmental pollution; the reduction of morbidity and mortality of waterborne, foodborne and vector transmitted diseases, and mitigate the health effects of climate change. The national government department of health shall formulate national strategic and operation policies that shall provide for equal opportunities measures that shall ensure that food and water available for human consumption are hygienic and safe and develop risk-based, sustainable, integrated food safety systems, occupational health practices, water safety systems, appropriate housing, and vector and vermin control. They shall also concern other hygiene and environmental safety issues.