Kenya: Private Hospitals Seek Urgent Dialogue With MOH After Closure Threat

Nairobi — The Kenya Association of Private Hospitals (KAPH) has urged the Ministry of Health and the Social Health Authority (SHA) to initiate urgent dialogue over delayed payments owed to private healthcare providers, terming recent threats of closure by the ministry as unwarranted and counterproductive.

The association made the call after Principal Secretary for Health, Harry Kimtai warned that private health facilities refusing to participate in the SHA scheme could face license revocation…