Kenya’s Health System Reels: SHA’s Sh9 Billion Debt Sparks Sabotage Fears

By TWV Chief Investigative Reporter

A full-blown crisis is engulfing Kenya’s healthcare system, with governors raising the alarm over the Social Health Authority’s (SHA) failure to release more than Sh9 billion owed to county health facilities.

This staggering debt, inherited from the defunct National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF), is choking hospitals, starving them of drugs, staff, and equipment, and threatening to derail the government’s flagship Universal Health Coverage (UHC) programme.

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