Teachers' medical scheme in limbo as petition seeks to block planned migration

KUPPET Secretary General Akelo Misori was speaking during a fundraiser and free medical camp organised by Minet Kenya at Miyuga Mixed Secondary School in Karachuonyo Constituency. The teachers’ unions leaders have rejected ODM leader Raila Odinga’s proposal of devolving primary and secondary education to county governments.[James Omoro/Standard]

The transfer of all teachers and their dependents to the government-run medical scheme is facing fresh headwinds after two teachers moved to court to block the process.

The teachers now want the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) barred from migrating tutors’ medical cover from the private insurer Minet/AON to the new Social Health Authority (SHA).