Inequity in the distribution of urban health care infrastructure in Kenya: the Kisumu Municipality as an example.

This paper discusses the phenomenon of the intra-urban inequities in the provision of health care. Using the example of Kisumu municipality in Kenya, the author demonstrates that the current gross differentials in the state of health and access to health care are neither inevitable nor unavoidable. The author however contends that the crisis is not insurmountable. What it requires is the willingness and readiness by the political superstructure to stimulate, institute and enforce appropriate changes in the legislative policies affecting the very basis upon which appropriate and innovative application of various policy alternatives to urban health planning and the overall domain of physical planning and urban renewal should take place.