Rural hospitals fault NHIF on accreditation delays
Friday January 29 2021
By LYNET IGADWAH
Summary
Rural private hospital operators have faulted the national insurer’s sluggish accreditation of facilities saying it denying Kenyans access to primary healthcare amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
In the past year, the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) approved only 411 of the 9,000 facilities cleared and gazetted by the Ministry of Health as functional.
The Rural Private Hospitals Association of Kenya (RUPHA) said the slow approval pace is limiting medical access to the rural community and increasing medical bills paid out of pocket.
Rural private hospital operators have faulted the national insurer’s sluggish accreditation of facilities saying it denying Kenyans access to primary healthcare amid the Covid-19 pandemic.