Private Hospitals Suspend Services For SHA Beneficiaries Citing Delays
The Rural and Urban Private Hospitals Association (RUPHA) has stated that beneficiaries of the Social Health Authority (SHA) insurance scheme will have to pay cash across 700 private and faith-based [...]
DRCongo Launches Ebola Vaccination Drive as Outbreak Spreads in Kasai
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has begun vaccinating frontline health workers and people exposed to Ebola in the southern Kasai province, as officials race to contain the country’s [...]Court Blocks Bid to Tax Vitamin E Imports as Food Supplements
The High Court has rejected the taxman's effort to reclassify two high-dose vitamin E products as food supplements, upholding the tribunal’s assessment that the capsules are medicines for customs purposes. [...]Health Ministry Claims Relative Success in Battling Fraud in SHA, Private Hospitals Disagree
Private hospitals in Kenya are warning that the Social Health Authority’s (SHA) push to digitize payments and root out fraud without human oversight is straining facilities to the breaking point. [...]Debts, Deletions, and Downgrades: Private Hospitals Bulk as SHA Withholds Billions
Kenya’s promise of universal health coverage now reads as bitter irony, with officials sermonizing about “free primary healthcare” even as hospitals stagger under KSh 76 billion in unpaid bills. The [...]HewaTele Secures US$ 10.5Mn to Build East Africa Medical Oxygen Plant
HewaTele Limited, a Kenyan medical oxygen producer, has secured US$10.5 million from AfricInvest’s Transform Health Fund to build a large-scale plant capable of producing oxygen at 99.6% purity. “Oxygen is [...]Kenya Raises Alarm Over Ozempic Abuse As Drugmaker Faces Piling Lawsuits Abroad
Kenya's Pharmacy and Poisons Board (PPB) has issued a sharp warning over the rising misuse of Ozempic, a diabetes medication increasingly sought after for weight loss. “In light of the [...]Factories in Crisis, Hospitals in Distress as CEOs Warn of Uneven Recovery-CBK Study
Kenya’s economy may be on the mend, but two critical sectors-manufacturing and health-are buckling under financial strain, threatening to drag down the broader recovery, a new Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) survey [...]Paratus Launches Affordable Satellite Connectivity for Health Clinics, Community Centres
Pan-African telecoms and network services provider Paratus Group has launched Paratus Connect2Care, an initiative providing affordable, high-quality satellite internet to empower health centres and community centres in Botswana, Eswatini, Kenya, [...]
Eight Insurers Suspend Nairobi Hospital Over Tariff Hike as Governance Disputes Escalate
The Nairobi Hospital is facing simultaneous pressure from its largest medical insurance partners and internal governance challenges. According to Osano, independent comparisons showed the revised rates remain competitive against peer [...]
Kenya Has Wiped Out Sleeping Sickness- WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Kenya as having eliminated human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) or sleeping sickness as a public health problem, making it the tenth country to reach [...]New Bill Aims to Bring Herbal Medicine Under KEMRI’s Control
