Health Principal Secretary Harry Kimtai has given in to the mounting pressures to withdraw a case filed against Grace Njoki Mulei, the woman who stormed the Afya House press briefing in Nairobi.
The PS agreed to withdraw the case while appearing before the MPs who are attending the ongoing National Assembly mid-term retreat in Naivasha.
The lawmakers pressured him to explain why the patient was subjected to suffering despite merely exercising her freedom of speech.
PS Kimtai drops the case against Grace Njoki. Photo: Courtesy.
The MPs did not forget to also take issue with SHA boss Mohamed Abdi over the system failure and issues raised by Kenyans on the system.
Grace Njoki became a sensation after storming the press briefing that the Ministry of Health was holding to update Kenyans on the Universal Health Coverage uptake.
She stormed the briefing demanding answers on why health practitioners at Kenyatta National Hospital were taking them in circles on the procedures to follow on the use of SHA services.
”We are not the only ones who have come, several others are waiting for us at the gate. We have walked into the offices of NHIF, the ICT department, and all other offices on these floors. They are not helping us,” shouted Njoki during the briefing.
Hours later, things took a different twist for her when she got picked up by persons who identified themselves as DCI on the evening of Thursday, January 23.
The drama at Afya House prompted KNH to issue a statement on SHA, acknowledging delays in the system.
