Document is current

Article History

Received: 31 May 2017

Accepted: 21 March 2018

First Online: 5 April 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: Ethics approval for the IQMS audits at the Kenyan facilities has been given by the Institutional Research Ethics Committee (IREC) at Moi University, Kenya. As research did not contain any individual and personalised data further retrospective analysis has been exempted from requiring ethics approval by the Ethics commission of the Faculty of Medicine Heidelberg, Germany (S-673/2015).Written consent to participate has been given by facilities, staff members and patients previously to the IQMS data collection using questionnaires.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

: Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.