Tag: PHC

SHA to crack down on facilities pushing patients to buy medicine out-of-pocket

Despite accessing consultations under SHA, many Kenyan patients still leave primary healthcare…

How drug shortages, system failures are reversing primary healthcare gains  

Despite Kenya registering 29.8 million people for free healthcare and disbursing nearly Ksh19 billion…

Access, ethics and scalability take centre stage in push to digitise primary healthcare  

Kenya is the first country in Africa to establish a semi-autonomous government…

Kenya went digital with health, but did we lock patient data?  

The Social Health Authority (SHA) holds data on 27 million patients across…

Broken clinics, simple solutions: Fixes that can save thousands of mothers, children 

Overstretched health facilities force risky referrals, leaving mothers and newborns exposed, according…

Kenya’s Ksh12.6 Billion Primary Healthcare Funds: A country analysis 

The dispensaries that need the money most are the ones that cannot…

Why Kenya’s primary healthcare is still finding its footing 

Funding shortfalls, staff and equipment shortages, drug stock-outs, lack of awareness and…

Care at the doorstep: Why CHPs thrive in villages but fade in cities

Community Health Promoters (CHPs) are in all 47 counties, but unlike in…

Social Health Insurance Fund is legal, emergency care a must for all, High Court rules 

But Judgment faults government over rushed transition of SHIF, orders structural reforms under…

How Primary Healthcare in Kenya works & why it matters   

A community health promoter knocking on your door. A free consultation at…

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