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Ministry backs new medical scheme: Is it all hype and hot air?

President William Ruto speaks after assenting Universal Health Care Bills at State House, Nairobi, in October 2023. [PCS]

What the Kenya Kwanza government has been pushing into the faces of Kenyans as a shining success of its term now lies in near ruins.

Like a shattered mirror that leaves the owner bleeding while staring at their broken reflection, the government is now confronted with a new Social Health Authority (SHA), whose providence is nothing but pain, frustration, and, possibly, unspoken deaths for thousands of Kenyans, whose plight it was meant to alleviate.

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