June 2020 DailyNation; Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe has vowed to disband a cartel, which he says has hampered efforts to fight corruption in the ministry. The CS believes a group of individuals has managed to infiltrate the justice system to retain control of strategic positions to manage billions of …
Read More »May 2018 Standardmedia; Kenyans will cough up Sh543 billion in the next five years towards the Universal Health Care plan. Of this, about Sh268 billion will be collected from an estimated 12 million workers in the informal sector in a scheme that may soon become mandatory. Almost half of the money …
Read More »April 2018 Standardmedia: A health insurance plan for three million secondary school students is ready, National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) has said. The state-owned social health insurer has revealed that all modalities for the programme as proposed by President Uhuru Kenyatta are complete. NHIF Manager in charge of Benefits and Claims Gilbert …
Read More »February 2018 Standardmedia; Cabinet Secretary Sicily Kariuki has taken over at the Ministry of Health with a promise to deliver on universal health. “We will deliver universal healthcare as envisaged under the big four agenda,” she tweeted on Wednesday soon after a handover ceremony, referring to President Uhuru’s second term goal. But first she …
Read More »March 2017 DailyNation; The final report on the negotiations to end the 93-day-old strike by doctors in public hospitals will be presented in the Court of Appeal on Tuesday even as sources privy to the talks say “they are far from over” but are hopeful of “white smoke”. This follows …
Read More »September 2016 DailyNation; The government has invested nearly Sh26 billion in the National Hospital Insurance Fund to ensure that it handles chronic diseases such as cancer that kills more than 39,000 Kenyans annually. The financing by the government, through the Ministry of Health, is to “ensure universal health coverage” where …
Read More »February 2013 KMPDU Articles, By Elesban Kihuba; PROPOSED HEALTH LAW CANNOT PASS THE PATH DEPENDENCE TEST. A health system provides the means through which health care services are planned and delivered. They are socially constructed and their basic arrangements are a product of historical negotiations with the environment. A complete …
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