{"id":198184,"date":"2025-05-16T00:31:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T22:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-billions-slashed-as-health-ministry-warns-of-derailed-uhc-plan-and-stalled-reforms\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T00:31:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T22:31:21","slug":"kenya-billions-slashed-as-health-ministry-warns-of-derailed-uhc-plan-and-stalled-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-billions-slashed-as-health-ministry-warns-of-derailed-uhc-plan-and-stalled-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Billions Slashed As Health Ministry Warns of Derailed UHC Plan and Stalled Reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>The implementation of Universal Health Coverage plan is staring at a major crisis after the State Department for Public Health and Professional Standards suffered a massive Sh38.7 billion budget cut, threatening the implementation of key health programmes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Documents submitted to the National Assembly by Health Principal Secretary Mary Muthoni Muriuki reveal that the department had requested Sh70 billion for the 2025\/2026 financial year but was allocated only Sh31.3 billion less than&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505150432.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>Nairobi \u2014 The implementation of Universal Health Coverage plan is staring at a major crisis after the State Department for Public Health and Professional Standards suffered a massive Sh38.7 billion budget cut, threatening the implementation of key health programmes. Documents submitted to the National Assembly by Health Principal Secretary Mary Muthoni Muriuki reveal that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":198185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00550049:35cbc8c9a60bb08e5cdec35e7cc9c834:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,12854,34425,5731,4688,430,6857,257,7586,7580,14006,254,17325,17168,6853],"class_list":["post-198184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-billions","tag-derailed","tag-health","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-ministry","tag-news","tag-plan","tag-reforms","tag-slashed","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stalled","tag-uhc","tag-warns"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00550049:35cbc8c9a60bb08e5cdec35e7cc9c834:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198184","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=198184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}