Article 43 of the Constitution of Kenya (2010) provides that every person has the right to the highest attainable standard of health, which
includes right to health care services, including reproductive health care.
Further, the National Patient’s Right Charter holds that all people have the right to good health and quality healthcare, which includes:
- Right to access health care
- Right to receive emergency treatment in any health facility
- Right to be informed of all the provisions of one’s Medical Scheme/Health Insurance Policy
- Right to choose a health care provider
- Right to the highest attainable quality of health care products and services
- Right to refuse treatment
- Right to confidentiality
- Right to informed consent to treatment
- Right to information concerning one’s health and health care
- Right to be treated with respect and dignity
- Right to a second medical opinion
- Right to complain about healthcare, to have your complaint investigated and to receive a full response thereafter.
- Right to insurance coverage without discrimination
- Right to donate his or her organs and/or any other arrangements/ wishes upon ones demise