Clinical Officers Council

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Clinical Officers Council

Abbreviation	COC
Predecessor	Ministry of Health (MOH)
Formation	1989
Founded at	Nairobi
Type	State corporation
Legal status	Active
Purpose	Medical licensing
Headquarters	Nairobi
Region	Kenya
Chairman	Prof. Simon kang'ethe
Members	Dr. Joseph K. Choge Felix Mwenda Mutua Albert Wagurah Taiti Philip Musyimi Mwololo Edwin Nyabuga Makori Hariet Wakiuru Njiru
Registrar	Manasseh Bocha
CEO	Mutinda Kissing'u
Parent organization	Government of Kenya (GOK)
Website	www.clinicalofficerscouncil.org

The Clinical Officers Council of Kenya (COC) is a government agency – a corporate body created by the Clinical Officers (Training, Registration and Licensing) Act no. 20 of 2017 – Laws of Kenya whose work is to supervise and control the training and professional practice of medicine, dentistry, orthopaedics and health work by clinical officers and to register and license clinics and medical centres. A person who is registered by the Clinical Officers Council is entitled to render medical services in any approved institution and may, with respect to patients, examine, diagnose, order laboratory and imaging investigations, prescribe treatment and perform procedures as per their scope of training.