What the Kenya Kwanza government has been pushing into the faces of Kenyans as a shining success of its term now lies in near ruins.

Like a shattered mirror that leaves the owner bleeding while staring at their broken reflection, the government is now confronted with a new Social Health Authority (SHA), whose providence is nothing but pain, frustration, and, possibly, unspoken deaths for thousands of Kenyans, whose plight it was meant to alleviate.

On Wednesday, when a section of patients stormed Afya House to express their consternation and pique, Health Cabinet Secretary Deborah Barasa must have been caught by surprise.

She offered a feeble apology herself, not on behalf of the authority.