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Kenya’s Sh13 trillion public debt is increasingly being felt beyond the Treasury, with health experts warning that fiscal pressure and declining donor support could leave critical health programmes struggling to maintain services.
The warning comes as Kenya attempts to finance its health system more independently while facing rising demand for healthcare and shrinking external support.
For patients, the consequences of this transition may not appear in government debt figures. They may instead emerge as a missed HIV test, an unavailable medicine, a delayed diagnosis or a patient forced to return to hospital because the first treatment did not work.
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