{"id":206117,"date":"2025-09-02T18:10:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-governors-reject-moh-proposal-demand-sustainable-funding-for-uhc-staff\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T18:10:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:10:21","slug":"kenya-governors-reject-moh-proposal-demand-sustainable-funding-for-uhc-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-governors-reject-moh-proposal-demand-sustainable-funding-for-uhc-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Governors Reject MoH Proposal, Demand Sustainable Funding for UHC Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>The standoff emerged during a Tuesday meeting between county chiefs and Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Governors have rejected the Ministry of Health\u2019s plan to provide one-year funding for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) staff, insisting that any absorption of personnel into permanent and pensionable terms must be backed by sustainable financing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The standoff emerged during a Tuesday meeting between county chiefs and Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale, with governors warning&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509020393.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 standoff emerged during a Tuesday meeting between county chiefs and Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale. Governors have rejected the Ministry of Health\u2019s plan to provide one-year funding for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) staff, insisting that any absorption of personnel into permanent and pensionable terms must be backed by sustainable financing. The standoff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":206118,"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":[258,256,7617,6141,7321,4688,430,31273,257,10809,6654,254,6221,6059,17168],"class_list":["post-206117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-demand","tag-funding","tag-governors","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-moh","tag-news","tag-proposal","tag-reject","tag-south-africa-today","tag-staff","tag-sustainable","tag-uhc"],"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\/206117","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=206117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}