Gov’t to roll out UHC from January next year

President William Ruto has announced that the government will ROLL OUT of Universal Health Coverage in January 1st next year, adding that public discourses on regulations surrounding it will kick off next week. The President William Ruto has directed KEMSA and Mission for Essential Drugs and Supplies (Meds), to collaborate in procuring and distributing medical supplies across the country with the aim of bringing down their costs. He spoke in machakos county during the commissioning of a microbiology laboratory by the Mission for Essential Drugs and Supplies. And as Mary Muoki reports, a gazette notice operationalising the Social health insurance fund has been published paving the way for the fold up of NHIF.