Reduce the high cost of healthcare to boost access and universal coverage

 Patients at the waiting bench at Dagoretti Sub County Hospital Mutuini on January 31, 2025. 

Photo credit: Wilfred Nyangaresi | Nation Media Group

Kenya stands at a critical crossroads where the pulse of our nation is weakening, not for lack of medical facilities, but due to the suffocating cost of accessing them.

As we look at the gleaming new wings of private hospitals and the ambitious blueprints of public clinics, a dark shadow hangs over the Kenyan household: the financial anguish of a sick relative. Today, the dream of a healthy nation is being deferred by a system where being sick has become more dependable than the quality of care itself.

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