President William Ruto's cabinet on Tuesday repealed the National Health Insurance Fund to introduce three models of funding at a sitting held in Kakamega State Lodge.
Primary Healthcare Fund, Social Health Insurance Fund, and Emergency, Chronic, and Critical Illness Fund are set to replace NHIF.
To enable the reforms, the Cabinet approved four health Bills including the Primary Health Care Bill, of 2023, the Digital Health Bill, of 2023, the Facility Improvement Financing Bill, of 2023, and the Social Health Insurance Bill, of 2023.
These bills seek to accelerate Kenya’s attainment of Universal Health Coverage (UHC).
"These Bills will usher in a paradigm in the legal and institutional framework for healthcare in Kenya by repealing the current NationalHealth Insurance Fund and establishing in its place the three new funding," the dispatch read.
Read More
The same Cabinet sitting also elevated 13 Technical and Vocational Colleges to National Polytechnic status to enhance access to higher education.
"The action by Cabinet is pursuant to the principles set out in Sessional Paper No. 1 of 2005: A Framework for Education, Training and Research; which establishes a pathway for upward mobility of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) graduates," a dispatch released after the meeting read.
The policy framework requires that at least one National Polytechnic is established in each county and a TVET institution in every constituency.
The institutions elevated are Maasai Technical Training Institute, Kiambu Institute of Science and Technology, Rift Valley Institute of Science and Technology, Coast Institute of Technology, Tseikuru Technical and Training College and Sang’alo Institute of Science and Technology.
Others are Bureti Technical Vocational College, Jeremiah Nyagah Technical Training Institute, Mawego Technical Training Institute, and Baringo Technical Training Institute.
