Start-ups step in to plug Kenya mental health care gaps

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While the Ministry of Health is promising to transform mental healthcare, millions of Kenyans are still caught between a government making commitments and a system that has yet to deliver on them.

Last year, at the second National Mental Health Conference, Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale announced that mental health services had been formally integrated into Kenya's national insurance benefits package under the Taifa Care Model and the Social Health Authority (SHA).

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