Kenya: Disturbing Developments at the NHIF

editorial

In every country - whether poor or rich - one of the most crucial obligations that the government has, is to provide affordable health care for all its citizens. This necessarily evolves into a situation in which one of the largest pots of money under one institution within a country, will be the government-mandated fund for health insurance. And in a country without checks and balances, this pot of money will be the greatest source of temptation for those in power.

It follows then, that those chosen to lead such an institution have to be men and women who combine the highest possible world-class managerial skills, with the highest personal integrity. Nothing else will do when so much money is at stake; and nothing else will do, when what is under consideration is literally a life and death matter for millions of citizens.

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