Proposed NHIF Bills to be enacted before Mashujaa Day

Terry Rotich, a Senior State Counsel at the Ministry of Health. [Courtesy]

The National Assembly and the Senate have less than two weeks to pass the proposed National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) bills before the official launch of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by President William Ruto on Mashujaa Day.

Once the President assents the bills into law, NHIF will go under a huge reorganisation exercise that will see the fund scrapped and in its place, the Social Health Authority will take over in a transition that will take 12 months.