166. The needs of children aged 0-3 years have been addressed with health and nutrition interventions through integration of psychosocial stimulation in infant and young child feeding (IYCF) and Community level component of integrated management of childhood illnesses(C-IMCI). However, there is need to address the component on pregnancy to make the programme more holistic in addressing all aspects of a child’s development. Further actions such as increase in primary health facilities under the Strategic Plan for Rationalization of Health care Services in level 3 and 4 of hospitals are ongoing. Health facilities in Kenya are grouped into six levels; Level 1 - community Level 2 - dispensaries Level 3 - health centres Level 4 - district and sub—district hospitals Level 5 - provincial hospitals Level 6- national referral hospitals 167. In recent years, the Government of Kenya has improved the state of health institutions. They receive funds to make the compounds, wards, kitchens and laboratories more comfortable for staff to work and patients to receive services. However, many dispensaries, health centres and district hospitals still lack critical equipment. This explains congestion at referral and provincial hospitals, a situation that the Government will improve now that health services have been devolved to the Counties and the County Governments are expected to establish their own priorities. 168. Health facilities in Kenya by province both public and private, 2010: Rift Valley Province – 1,732 Central Province with - 1,251 Eastern Province – 1,206 Nyanza – 773 Coast – 770 Western – 426 Nairobi – 406 North Eastern – 232 169. The Government has also adopted guidelines developed by W.H.O on Universal Immunization of Children against the 6 vaccine preventable diseases, which is crucial to reducing infant mortality and child mortality. This has led to substantial increase in childhood immunization coverage levels at the national level for example in north eastern the population that is fully immunized from 9% in 2003 to 48% in 2008-09. Health Financing 170. Funding to the health sector has been increasing gradually which is partly attributable to a rise in development funding by development partners. There has been an increase (in absolute numbers) from Kshs Million 34, 845 in 2008/09 to 47,011.5 in 2009/10; 55,155.5 in 2010 /11 to 64,019 in 2011/12; and 86,968.3 in 2012/13. However, this allocation remains inadequate as the overall allocations have remained at 6 per cent of the overall Government budget for the last three years. 39