Bomet Senator Christopher Langat said the changes work against President Uhuru Kenyatta's Universal Health Care (UHC) programme. Dr Langat said the NHIF board erred in introducing the changes, which will adversely affect individual contributors who pay Sh500 monthly to the insurer for medical cover. "What NHIF top managers should understand is that the individual contributors are in the informal sector, with a majority being the unemployed. Separately, leaders from Kajiado criticised the changes, terming them counter-productive to Universal Health Care. Some of the proposed changes are positive but others are punitive and need to be reconsidered,” said Mr Lenku.

Source: Daily Nation January 14, 2020 06:56 UTC