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We start the bulletin with transition to SHAH, where the shift to the new social health Insurance Authority -SHA- got a boost after Parliament's Health Committee cleared the scheme saying its querries about the multibillion health digitization project have been answered. The committee made the declaration after the CS and PS for health appeared before it to give a status update hours before the October first roll out date for SHA. The clearance comes as question lingers over the criteria that will be used to determine how the informal sector households will be banded to determine their annual contributions to the health fund.
MPs question Health CS on new health system
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