At least 225 former National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) employees are stranded as they wait for deployment by the Public Service Commission (PSC).

This is unfolding as the Social Health Authority (SHA) is expected to make an external advertisement for the positions today, insiders say.

The employees, who have been serving at SHA since its establishment in November last year were issued with deployment letters to the PSC.

In total, 247 deployment letters were issued by the SHA Chief Executive Officer Mercy Mwangangi on June 9.