Francis Atwoli, the Secretary General of the Central Organisation of Trade Unions (COTU), has accused the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Digital Health Authority (DHA) of being responsible for recent fraudulent claims at the Social Health Authority (SHA).
In a statement on Tuesday August 26, Atwoli claimed that he had been trying to arrange a meeting with Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale for a month to discuss these issues, but had not succeeded.
Atwoli, who is also a member of the SHA board, stated that the core issue is that the SHA's operations depend entirely on an IT platform controlled by the MoH and DHA.
He argued that this setup robs the SHA of the autonomy needed to independently verify claims, thus allowing fraudulent ones to enter the system.
