The Health Cabinet Secretary, Aden Duale, has revealed that some medics and health facilities across the country are sharing pre-authorisation codes to commit fraud through the Social Health Authority (SHA).
According to Duale, a doctor is under investigation after a facility claimed that he was conducting ten surgeries a day, and yet, after interrogation, he claimed that he had never set foot in that facility, which was 600 kilometres away from where he was originally working. "You know I speak very straight, so I am giving you notice.
I have a case where a facility and the doctor who has given his pre-authorisation code are 600 kilometres apart, and that facility is claiming that the doctor has conducted more than 10 surgeries," he stated. "When this doctor was conducting him, he said that he had never been in this facility, and when he was asked how his preauthorization code was shared, that is where he started wondering what was going on," he stated.
Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale during a meeting on April 23, 2025.
