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Patients transferred as hospitals shut down over NHIF fraud

Jekim Hospital in Nkubu, Meru County, has been closed following a scandal involving the National Hospital Insurance Fund that has affected several hospitals in Meru, Kirinyaga and Nairobi. [Phares Mutembei, Standard]

As investigations into suspected fraud committed against National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) continues to gather pace, patients admitted in some facilities under probe are in limbo.

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