Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale has called on Garissa residents to register for the Social Health Authority (SHA) in large numbers to avoid being denied access to medical services.
Currently, only 150,468 Kenyans in Garissa have registered with SHA, translating to only 16.7 per cent of the population.
Speaking during a free medical camp event in Garissa where officials had also set SHA registration desks, Duale said that the Universal Healthcare Program is working and urged Kenyans to ignore those opposing the medical cover.
At the same time, the CS defended the SHA partial payment for hospital bills noting that sharing a larger medical cost burden should be a big deal for the patients. "If you take a mother to deliver at the Garissa Referral Hospital or even in the private hospitals and you have registered with SHA, you will be charged zero shilling and SHA will pay Shs 30,000.
