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Thursday, November 30, 2023 –Health cabinet Secretary Susan Nakhumicha has announced treatment of Cancer patients free of charge.
Addressing the health matter on Citizen TV on Wednesday November 29 night, the CS admitted that Cancer menace among other terminal ailments have never, before, been covered by the health fund NHIF but this has since been addressed through the introduction of Social Health Authority SHA.
“NHIF does not cover screening and some of the diagnostics. That is one of the reasons why we have reformed NHIF. There is a limit within NHIF that the treatment can be covered.
“What we have done in Social Health Authority is to ensure that we take care of Kenyans from the beginning of their lives to the end. We have ensured that we are covering screening and diagnostics. We have ensured that all treatment for cancer is covered at 100%.” Susan Nakhumicha clarified during the interview.
She noted that in this scheme, is the best of Social Health Authority is the Emergency Critical and Chronic Illness Fund. The beneficiaries of this Social Health Authority are people with chronic, critical illness and emergency care.
“I want to encourage Kenyans that where we are supposed to pay taxes, let us pay taxes because that is how the government raises revenue to be able to facilitate the programs it has put in place,” she said.
In Kenya, Cancer treatment remains prohibitively expensive whose costs include tests, surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy with only a few major facilities being able to carry out this.
CS Nakhumicha advised patients suffering from certain life-threatening diseases to break stigma and speak out so as they can be assisted by the little available resources provided by the government and other well-wishers.
In findings by doctors and professors, early diagnosis is critical for survival rates. 70% of cancers are, sadly, diagnosed in late stages.
