ADVOKS GLOBAL · KENYA
Primary Health Care Act
12. Register of community health promoters
Edition: 2023-11-24 · In force
12. Register of community health promoters
(1)Each county director of health shall keep and maintain a Register of all community health promoters working in the county.(2)The county director of health may designate a community health officer within the county public service as a registrar to keep and maintain the register under subsection (1).(3)The register under subsection (1) shall include—(a)bio data information on community health promoters including their—(i)name and identification details; and(b)information on the link facility to which the community health promoters report;(c)the training database for the community health promoters;(d)the households assigned to each community health promoter;(e)all community health promoters who have been de-registered; and(f)such other information as the county government shall prescribe.(4)There shall be kept and maintained, by the community health officer responsible for overseeing the delivery of community health services in each community health unit, an extract of the register under subsection (1) with respect to the community health promoters deployed to households in the respective community health unit.(5)A community health promoter shall notify the community health officer in the respective community health unit of any changes to their particulars and the information shared with the registrar under subsection (2) within fourteen days of such change.(6)The registrar shall, within seven days of receipt of the change in particulars under subsection (5)—(a)verify the information; and(b)update the change of particulars in the register.