Private hospitals, NHIF deal gives patients hope

Kenyans seeking health services from some private facilities in the country may not access these services from Monday.

NHIF maintains that its new rates will allow the insurer to increase the number of people benefiting from its services.

Plans by NHIF to scale down remittances to private hospitals resulted in a standoff last week.

Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe said the government is working at bringing down the cost of healthcare in the country to make it affordable...

Private Hospitals to continue offering services to patients using the National Hospital Insurance Fund

Kenyans seeking health services from some private facilities in the country may not access these services from Monday.

NHIF maintains that its new rates will allow the insurer to increase the number of people benefiting from its services.

Medics administering the jab at our sub-county hospital are the most bored lot, for they have the vaccines, but no people to serve.

The clientele is urbane comprising dad, mum, two totos and the Chihuahua.

A High Court judge has even ruled that detention of patients over pending medical bills is unconstitutional and thus illegal.

As pandemic bites, number of patients seeking treatment has drastically dropped making hospitals struggle to pay salaries

Abdi Mohammed, the chairman of the Association of Private Hospitals said the institutions had lost their lifeline