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DP Kindiki: Free outpatient medical services are coming

Deputy President Kithure Kindiki addressing grassroots women leaders from Kirinyaga at his Irunduni home in Tharaka Nithi on August 29, 2025. [DPCS]

Kenyans will soon start benefiting from free outpatient medical services in public hospitals nationwide, should a plan by the government materialise.

In the plan, hospitals will only be allowed to ask for funds from patients admitted for further observation and care from the medical staff.

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