Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentist Union (KMPDU) Deputy Secretary-General, Dennis Miskellah, says challenges facing the Social Health Authority (SHA) can be resolved by overhauling its current funding model.
According to Miskellah, the government has failed, on multiple instances, to remit deductions from civil servants to the scheme, locking them out of the service while also crippling SHA.
Further, the KMPDU official proposes a deductions plan on products consumed by every Kenyan, akin to the Value Added Tax (VAT), as opposed to salary deductions from the working citizens who account for only twenty percent of the population.
The current framework, he says, is unsustainable. "80 per cent are in Jua Kali, only 20 per cent are on a salary.
