Don’t ignore concerns over SHA services

I attended this week’s two‑day town hall meeting on the health sector at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC), presided over by President William Ruto and here is my take.

My initial inclination was to dismiss the two‑day town hall as yet another PR exercise, staged to let Cabinet secretaries, mandarins and governors dazzle the public with propaganda and pipe dreams about the much‑maligned Universal Health Coverage programme and its centrepiece, Social Health Authority (SHA).