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Road to free healthcare wasn’t going to be easy

Recently, First Lady Margaret Kenyatta represented Kenya at the World Health Organization's (WHO) 72nd World Health Assembly meeting in Geneva. She discussed the successes of Kenya's Universal Health Coverage (UHC) programme, which was inaugurated last December.

In December, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus joined President Uhuru Kenyatta and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga and other leaders during the roll out of the pilot program for the Universal Healthcare in Kisumu. This was replicated in Nyeri, Isiolo and Machakos, with plans to implement it in all of our 47 counties within four years.

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