{"id":229218,"date":"2026-04-01T13:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T11:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ruto-defends-social-health-authority-dismisses-critics-as-misguided-amid-healthcare-reforms\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T13:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T11:34:07","slug":"kenya-ruto-defends-social-health-authority-dismisses-critics-as-misguided-amid-healthcare-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ruto-defends-social-health-authority-dismisses-critics-as-misguided-amid-healthcare-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Ruto Defends Social Health Authority, Dismisses Critics As Misguided Amid Healthcare Reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>President William Ruto has dismissed criticism of the government&#8217;s Social Health Authority (SHA), saying opponents lack the capacity to understand or interpret the scale of reforms underway in the country&#8217;s healthcare system.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Speaking during a meeting with Maendeleo ya Wanawake women, the Head of State defended the new health insurance scheme, terming it a transformative programme that is already delivering tangible benefits to millions of Kenyans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">&#8220;Those saying SHA is not working have&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604010292.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 President William Ruto has dismissed criticism of the government&#8217;s Social Health Authority (SHA), saying opponents lack the capacity to understand or interpret the scale of reforms underway in the country&#8217;s healthcare system. Speaking during a meeting with Maendeleo ya Wanawake women, the Head of State defended the new health insurance scheme, terming it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":229219,"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\/00640754:2db5f1de5b86d85c43302066aedc32d7:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,9367,8951,7820,12843,5731,12370,4688,430,29623,257,7580,11238,3577,254],"class_list":["post-229218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-authority","tag-critics","tag-defends","tag-dismisses","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-misguided","tag-news","tag-reforms","tag-ruto","tag-social","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00640754:2db5f1de5b86d85c43302066aedc32d7:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229218","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=229218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}