Health Ministry CS Sicily Kariuki on Tuesday unveiled a team of experts to spearhead radical reforms at the National Hospital Insurance Fund. "The NHIF reforms will be closely monitored, coordinated and driven concurrently with other key and ongoing service delivery-oriented reforms," Kariuki said. The team has been tasked with doing an analysis of the financial sustainability of the NHIF, legal and regulatory reforms, working on organisational and business process re-engineering reforms towards re-positioning NHIF as a national social health insurance provider and ensuring accountability and transparency in the national insurer. "The identification and inauguration of an independent expert panel is a key intervention and step towards the transformation of NHIF," Kariuki said. Read: Civil servants threaten to quit NHIF scheme citing poor servicesThe panel consists of experts drawn from key health sector stakeholders.

Source: The Star February 26, 2019 17:15 UTC