Speaking during a live TikTok stream on Thursday morning former DP Rigathi Gachagua noted that President Ruto ignored an option to upgrade NHIF to the new SHA.
According to Gachagua, the proposed changes to revamp NHIF would have Kenyans pay Ksh300 to cover the whole family.
“According to experts, it was possible to reform and improve NHIF at a cost of about Ksh 800 million,” he revealed.
Gachagua’s first live session on TikTok managed to pull over 4000 people. Photo: Courtesy.
Gachagua went on to describe it as rushed and poorly implemented.
The former DP further questioned the need for a new healthcare system being deployed under SHA for Ksh 104 billion.
According to him, Kenya Kwanza’s initial plan was to reduce family healthcare contributions from Ksh500 to Ksh300 while expanding coverage to include all illnesses and chronic conditions.
“The program was good in concept, but the implementation has been very wanting. It was rushed without sufficient consultation with stakeholders.We wanted to reduce the monthly payments to Ksh300 to cover the whole family.”
The project that has Kenyans up in arms has already seen an initial expenditure of approximately Ksh110.9 billion: Ksh6.1 billion for the SHA system and a Ksh 104.8 billion contract for the supporting technology infrastructure.
