A union representing workers who served under the defunct National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) has accused the government of allegedly locking out its members from jobs at the new Social Health Authority (SHA), threatening to move to court if the recruitment format is not corrected.
The Kenya Union of Commercial Food and Allied Workers claimed more than 80 percent of NHIF’s former staff have been sidelined in the hiring of officers to run the new public health insurer, despite a law requiring that they be given priority.
