Former Cabinet Minister Moses Kuria has accused the pharmaceutical mafia of controlling Kenya’s drug market, claiming medicines sold locally are far more expensive and of low quality than those sold in the global market. Speaking on November 26, 2025, Kuria alleged Kenya’s market is saturated with inferior drugs whose prices are artificially inflated, creating a
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Social Health Authority (SHA) has collected more than Ksh70 billion since it was set up, but officials say the fund has also had to reject claims worth over Ksh10 billion on grounds of fraud. Mercy Mwangangi, the chief executive of SHA, disclosed the figures during an interview on Citizen TV on Tuesday. She contrasted the
The Social Health Authority has given several hospitals 15 days to share documents verifying over Ksh3 billion worth of claims flagged by the Authority. In a statement on Monday, September 15, the Authority stated that claims were flagged due to several reasons, the top of which was the fact that a majority of the claims
The government is set to cater for the registration of 1.5 million Kenyans with the Social Health Authority from next week, President William Ruto has announced. In a brief statement released by the Head of Special Projects and Creative Economy at the Executive Office of the President, Dennis Itumbi, the government had already identified the