{"id":194268,"date":"2025-03-22T19:08:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T17:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-mandagos-proposal-a-bold-step-toward-equal-access-inspired-by-global-practices\/"},"modified":"2025-03-22T19:08:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T17:08:18","slug":"kenya-mandagos-proposal-a-bold-step-toward-equal-access-inspired-by-global-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-mandagos-proposal-a-bold-step-toward-equal-access-inspired-by-global-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Mandago&#8217;s Proposal &#8211; a Bold Step Toward Equal Access, Inspired By Global Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"80\">Last week, Uasin Gishu Senator Jackson Mandago put forward a radical proposal unlikely to be embraced by his colleagues or government bureaucrats. During a visit with President William Ruto at AIC Fellowship-Annex in Uasin Gishu, Mandago suggested that all civil servants, lawmakers, and senior government officials should exclusively use the new medical scheme, SHA\/SHIF. His argument was simple: if government officials were required to rely on public healthcare services, they would be more invested&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503210526.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Uasin Gishu Senator Jackson Mandago put forward a radical proposal unlikely to be embraced by his colleagues or government bureaucrats. During a visit with President William Ruto at AIC Fellowship-Annex in Uasin Gishu, Mandago suggested that all civil servants, lawmakers, and senior government officials should exclusively use the new medical scheme, SHA\/SHIF. His [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":194269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[6450,258,256,7439,4411,6212,13150,4688,430,50932,257,9224,10809,254,5165],"class_list":["post-194268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-access","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bold","tag-equal","tag-global","tag-inspired","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-mandagos","tag-news","tag-practices","tag-proposal","tag-south-africa-today","tag-step"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}