Dr.Mercy Mwangangi,CEO Social Health Authority(SHA),on 3rd June 2025,She officially assume office after her appointment in April. [Edward Kiplimo,Standard]
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The shocking financial happenings around Taifa Care are only the latest pointers to the urgent need for Kenya to be rescued from tumbling into the ranks of failed states. State failure is a process. It does not happen in a day. Kenya is on this sorry journey.
Known as Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF), and managed through the Social Health Authority (SHA), President William Ruto’s health flagship programme is flopping. Either, the regime has lost grip of the SHIF purse, or the state is itself on a looting spree. In the short time it has been here, SHIF has lost billions of shillings through fraudulent payments, and a faulty digital platform. Both Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale and President Ruto, do not know whether to admit the miasma, or to deny. The CS has shut down hospitals, suspended others and blacklisted even more. It is all about theft. Regardless of who the thieves are, the state cannot escape. It has a poor grip on the scheme to thieves, or it is the thief.
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