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Why the rising healthcare costs call for new mindset
Catastrophic health expenditure is not only about the price of medicine. It reflects the cost of being unseen, unprotected, and excluded from a system that was never designed with you in mind.
We often think of healthcare as something we turn to when we are unwell. A service we access, a system we rely on. Yet for many Kenyan households, healthcare is something far more precarious: a financial cliff.
A single illness, an unexpected accident, a hospital bill that exceeds a household’s income. A family that was just getting by, suddenly finds itself in free fall, sacrificing school fees, skipping meals, or selling assets to survive.
