{"id":16607,"date":"2024-10-29T11:38:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T11:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=16607"},"modified":"2024-10-29T11:38:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T11:38:10","slug":"health-ministry-allocates-ksh-10-billion-for-sha-and-to-settle-debts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=16607","title":{"rendered":"Health Ministry Allocates Ksh 10 Billion For SHA and to Settle Debts."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/dd3421f9d91cec26-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/dd3421f9d91cec26-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/dd3421f9d91cec26-980x551.jpeg 980w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/dd3421f9d91cec26-480x270.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Health has released Ksh 9 billion to the newly established Social Health Authority (SHA), a payment aimed at addressing outstanding debts owed to healthcare facilities by the now-defunct National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF), officials announced Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health Principal Secretary Harry Kimtai added that an extra Ksh 1 billion will go toward the Linda Mama Program, which provides free maternal healthcare services. This funding boost underscores the government\u2019s ongoing commitment to supporting free healthcare for expectant mothers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The announcement comes 29 days after SHA&#8217;s rollout, amid debates around operational issues linked to the government&#8217;s transition from the NHIF to the Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Health has released Ksh 9 billion to the newly established Social Health Authority (SHA), a payment aimed at addressing outstanding debts owed to healthcare facilities by the now-defunct National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF), officials announced Monday. Health Principal Secretary Harry Kimtai added that an extra Ksh 1 billion will go toward the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-health","category-news","category-political-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/dd3421f9d91cec26.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16609,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16607\/revisions\/16609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}