The Permanent Secretary (PS) for Public Health, Mary Muthoni, has invited relevant stakeholders to discuss the issues facing the Social Health Authority (SHA) and improve it.
Her request comes days after the Rural and Urban Private Hospitals Association of Kenya (RUPHA) announced plans to pause all treatments to patients under SHA following the state's failure to pay for services done since 2017. "If there are challenges in terms of communication or agreeing on something, my approach is that people should not throw their hands in the air but come back to the table and seek solutions," Muthoni said. "We are all serving Kenyans, we do not have a patient who belongs to the private hospital and another to the public hospital, a patient is a patient.
I would urge them to place their complaints in the right channel so that they are addressed," the PS continued.
Public Health Principal Secretary Mary Muthoni during a service at African Inland Church (AIC) Pioneer in Eldoret on Sunday, December 8, 2024.
