All teachers and police officers using insurance backed by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) will not receive treatment in a section of hospitals starting Monday, February 24. All hospitals under the Rural and Urban Private Hospitals Association of Kenya (RUPHA) on Thursday, February 20, announced that they will withhold treatment for civil servants until their debt is cleared. According to RUPHA, the move has been necessitated by the fact that the insurer has not paid for services done in the last year. "We will stop providing medical services to police and teachers using the government insurance from Monday," announced Rev Joseph Kariuki, Deputy Chairperson, RUPHA.
The umbrella body further threatened to withdraw treatment for patients using the Social Health Authority (SHA).
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