What Kenya Can Learn from India's Success as a Medical Tourism Destination
There is a lot Kenya can learn from India's success, even with its traditional systems, about rooting its ambition to become a choice medical tourism destination in the strategic formalisation [...]
Lawmakers Grill SHA CEO Mercy Mwangangi Over Legal Fees, Audit Irregularities
The Social Health Authority (SHA) paid nearly KSh 92 million in legal fees to recover claims worth only KSh 13.9 million, a disparity at the center of a parliamentary probe [...]U.S. Indicts Kenyan Businessman for KEMSA Heist
A U.S. federal indictment has implicated a Kenyan businessman in the diversion of American-funded HIV test kits from the state-run medical supply agency. “This was an incredibly complicated investigation, spanning [...]Kenya’s Health Wake-Up Call: Can Innovation Replace Donor Dollars?
Kenya’s fragile health system is under strain as cuts in foreign aid threaten to undo decades of progress in HIV, malaria, and maternal health. But experts say the crisis could [...]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 [...]
