Surveillance is an ongoing systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health data that is essential for health planning, implementation, and evaluation. Surveillance allows health officials to monitor disease burden over time, detect outbreaks early, identify at-risk groups, guide immediate public health actions, and inform prevention and control programs. In Kenya, current surveillance practice shows that while most health facilities complete weekly surveillance forms, under half submit their reports on time, and the reports do not fully capture all targeted diseases and have issues with underreporting, incorrect data entry, and timeliness.

1. REPUBLIC OF KENYA
REPUBLIC OF KENYA
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IN – CHARGES MEETING
DISEASE SURVEILLANCE AND RESPONSE
28TH JUNE 2022

2. Introduction to surveillance
• It is an ongoing systematic collection,
analysis, and interpretation of health data
essential to the planning, implementation,
and evaluation of health practice, closely
integrated with the timely dissemination of
these data to those who need to know
"information for action"
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3. Why Surveillance?
Monitor the burden of a disease over time
Detect outbreaks in a timely manner
Determine risk factors for the disease and
populations at greatest risk
Guide immediate public health actions for individual
patients or the community
Guide programs to prevent and control disease and
evaluate those programs
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4. List of IDSR Priority Diseases in Kenya

5. Current Practice
• Most of facilities’ MOH 204 A and B are in completely
filled
• 17-20 facilities out of 38 Facilities submit their weekly
surveillance reports (44.7%)
• The weekly surveillance (MOH505) reports submitted
do not capture all the targeted diseases and
conditions
• Under reporting
• Incorrect data capture in the MOH 505
• Lack of timeliness of reporting
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