Swahili Health

Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Kenya health data. Provides AI agents with tools to query Kenya health facilities, maternal health indicators, immunization coverage, and disease surveillance data via the DHIS2 public API.

PyPI version License: MIT

Tools

Tool	Description
get_health_facility	Get details of a Kenya health facility by name or code
search_facilities_by_county	List health facilities in a county with level and services
get_maternal_health	Maternal health indicators — ANC visits, skilled birth attendance
get_immunization_coverage	Child immunization coverage by vaccine and county
get_disease_surveillance	Weekly disease surveillance data (malaria, diarrhea, pneumonia)
get_health_worker_count	Health worker density by county

Usage with Claude

# Install
pip install swahili-health-mcp

# Add to Claude Code
claude mcp add swahili-health -- swahili-health-mcp

# Or with uvx
claude mcp add swahili-health -- uvx swahili-health-mcp

Data Sources

• Kenya DHIS2 (dhis.moh.go.ke) — Ministry of Health open data
• Kenya Health Facility Registry (kenyaemr.org)
• Kenya Health Information System (KHIS)

All data is publicly available via Kenya's open government data policy.

Part of the East Africa Civic Tech Portfolio

See also: mpesa-mcp | wapimaji-mcp

IP & Collaboration

MIT licensed. Feedback via GitHub Issues only — pull requests are not accepted. Demo data is labeled DEMO and is not suitable for operational decisions. Full policy: docs/architecture/IP_POLICY.md. Security reports: see SECURITY.md.

Part of the East Africa coordination stack

• Install & run: pip install reli-cli && reli list — 33 MCP servers on the official MCP Registry under io.github.gabrielmahia
• Evaluate any model on Swahili agent tasks: kipimo · dataset · leaderboard
• Coordinate across servers: africa-coord-bus — offline-first event bus with a built-in Kenya routing table
• Datasets: huggingface.co/gmahia · Docs hub: nairobi-stack

Model-agnostic by design: closed APIs, open-weight models, and small distilled models are all first-class citizens.