January 2018 Yahoonews; Andrew Luccock pays about $1,700 per month for health insurance for his family of 5—and still expects to pay more than $25,000 out-of-pocket this year for medical care. That will total around $45,000 for premiums and uncovered expenses in 2018–on top of a similar outlay last year. “I’m …

January 2018 BusinessDaily; The National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) is facing a Sh1.5 billion compensation claim over the termination of a controversial medical services contract it signed with a private clinic five years ago. Meridian Medical Centre, a chain of private clinics, has accused NHIF of refusing the pay the money …

January 2018 Businessdaily; Principal contributors to the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) crossed the seven million mark last December on the back of a campaign that recruited new members from the informal sector. Official data shows that the public health insurer added nearly a million members in the 18 months …

January 2018 DailyNation;The National Hospital Insurance Fund’s (NHIF) payouts for Caesarean-section births hit Sh1.2 billion last year amid concerns that hospitals could be pushing women to surgery for financial gain. Official records show that C-section (CS) — a surgical operation to help deliver a baby — accounted for 58.2 per cent …

January 2018 Standardmedia;Kenyans may not have to travel to India to seek kidney treatment after the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) in Nairobi received two modern machines. The acute multi-therapeutic Continous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) Amplya machines will also be used in the treatment of sepsis, multiple organ failure, trauma and …

January 2018 Standardmedia;Kisii County has more than 30 unused health centres built through the Constituency Development Fund. Due to failure to recruit staff to run the facilities, some of the health centres have been lying idle for five years. The National Government Constituencies Development Fund Act, 2015, limited spending of …

January 2018 BusinessDaily; The National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) is set to adopt the use of fingerprints to identify its more than six million members in the battle against fraudsters. Chief executive Geoffrey Mwangi said Thursday the fund would from next week start biometric registration to capture details of NHIF …

January 2018 Standardmedia; The risk of dying from scheduled surgery in Africa is more than double the global average, researchers said in a study shedding light on one of the continent’s biggest but poorly investigated health care problems. Patients who go under the knife in Africa in theory have a lower …

January 2017 Standardmedia; The nurses’ union has issued a fresh demand to county governments. Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN) on Thursday blamed county governments for delayed payments of its workers. KNUN accused the governments of not honouring the return to work formula and Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) signed in November, 2017. The union demanded the …

January 2018 BusinessDaily; An Israel-based cashless payment solution provider, On Track Innovations Ltd (OTI), will supply patient information smartcards and biometric verification technology in East Africa. Through its South African subsidiary, OTI has supplied personal health solutions worth Sh103 million ($1 million) and intends to supply its smartcards and biometric verification …