BREAKING: Patients are stranded in hospitals across the country due to the failure of the SHA system for 5 straight days.
Many say they walked into hospitals believing SHA would cover treatment for their loved ones because they had paid their contributions.
Instead, they were told the system isn't working.
Think about that.
-You pay into SHA every month.
-Your child falls sick.
-Your mother needs an MRI scan.
-Your father needs surgery.
-Then you're told: "The system is down."
And it gets worse.
For every day SHA remains unavailable, patients in wards continue accumulating bills that they may be forced to pay themselves.
-This is not a website crashing.
-This is not a social media app going offline.
-This is healthcare.
-These are people's lives.
This is the same system Kenyans were told cost over KSh 100 billion.
A system sold as the future of healthcare.
Yet patients are being left stranded when they need it most.
Meanwhile, Health CS Aden Duale continues moving around the country declaring SHA a success story.
The question is: success for whom?
Because the reality being experienced by many patients and families is very different from the picture being painted at press conferences and public events.
If you, a relative, or someone you know has been affected by SHA failures, share your experience in the replies.
Let Kenyans hear directly from the people standing in hospital queues, sleeping in wards, and struggling to raise money for treatment while the system meant to help them remains unavailable.
Duale can keep telling us that SHA is working.
In reality, patients trapped in hospitals tell a different story.
🇰🇪🇺🇸 | Kenyan police shot dead a protester as hundreds demonstrated against a US quarantine facility in Nanyuki.
The facility is for US nationals exposed to Ebola. Not for Kenyans.
The protester was shot in the head and at least 19 people were arrested, according to Reuters, at the site where the US is building a 50-bed unit at Laikipia Air Base.
Kenya has no Ebola case of its own; the unit would hold US nationals exposed to the virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. It runs on roughly KSh 1.68 billion — about USD 13 million in US aid.
This is not the first killing: on 1 June police shot two protesters dead and arrested 31. Demonstrators call their country a "dumping ground" and have vowed to march until the plan is scrapped.
Washington says it "cannot and will not allow" any cases to enter US territory. Kenyan President William Ruto calls the deal "mutually beneficial" — while his own police keep killing the Kenyans who refuse it.
The referee appointed to @FIFAWorldCup by FIFA referees committee was unable to enter the US due to visa issues.
@FIFAcom failed miserably in this regard.
The slogan ‘Football unites’ rang hollow.
Disgrace!
*Russia banned from football for attacking Ukraine*
*USA, host of the World Cup, bombs Iran for over a month, kills its Supreme Leader and refuses to let the Iranian team stay even one night in the country*
FIFA President: