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 Social and economic developments during the colonial period in Kenya

Objectives of the health centres during the colonial period in Kenya

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Objectives of the Health centres during the colonial period in Kenya
a) To eradicate diseases such as smallpox, malaria and sleeping sickness.
b) To train medical personnel to handle western medicine.
c) To improve health and hygiene for Africans and Asians in towns where they lived in overcrowded areas lacking in sanitary facilities.
-Africans began being trained in the provision of emergence health services during the first war. (The East African Medical Corps was formed). Between 1919 –1922, missionaries began to train Africans as Medical Dressers and Dispensers.


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