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Patients’ boost as sickle cell fully covered in SHA package
A doctor collects blood sample of an infant during the free sickle cell screening medical camp championed by the Rotary Club of Karen, Nairobi on 27, 2024.
The Ministry of Health is set to fully integrate Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) into the Social Health Authority’s (SHA) benefits package, a move that will reshape how care for patients with the condition is financed and ease the financial pain on the affected.
This policy change marks a significant step forward in addressing a disease that affects around 14,000 newborns in Kenya every year and has long been neglected in national health planning.
