MPs Decry Health Failures

Several Members of Parliament have raised concerns over the unaddressed mishaps under the new health scheme, the Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF).

On Monday, the legislators were lamenting the stale structure the Social Health Authority (SHA) operates under at the expense of denying Kenyans quality healthcare.

Belgut MP Nelson Koech opined that the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the leadership at SHA should be faulted for the mishap, arguing that they are failing at their job for failing to address the matter.

"I want to blame the Ministry of Health. We should not be sitting here every Monday trying to crack something that the acting Director General should be explaining to the population," he said.

"We cannot be in a situation where we are shooting blanks, we don't know what is going on."

The SHA insurance scheme has faced backlash from leaders and members of the public, who fault the inefficiency of the scheme in settling medical costs for patients.

In late December 2025, lawmakers questioned whether SHA, a supposedly semi-autonomous body, was being overshadowed by interference from MoH.

"When we created SHA, we did not intend for the Ministry to run it. The authority must prove it has the capacity to manage its own affairs," said Kikuyu MP Kimani Ichung’wah at a past event.