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Health & Fitness
Kenya health news and guides: SHA and insurance, hospitals, public health and wellness. Practical updates for households.
Governors urge health workers to shelve strike as new salaries promised from August
Council of Governors chair Ahmed Abdullahi says counties will start paying revised health worker salaries from August after delays caused by a missing special payroll code — and is urging unions to shelve strike plans while the money pipeline opens.
Health ministry tells Kenyans to wash vegetables thoroughly after pesticide findings
The Health ministry is urging Kenyans to wash vegetables thoroughly after a new study found pesticide residues in most market samples, raising food safety and farming practice questions.
Kenya moves to tighten industrial trans fat rules to cut lifestyle disease risk
Kenya is tightening rules on industrially produced trans fats as part of a wider push against non-communicable diseases, after global health data linked the additives to hundreds of thousands of deaths yearly.
Kenya Dental Association demands withdrawal of controversial practice scope
The Kenya Dental Association is demanding withdrawal of a controversial scope of practice, warning it could let unqualified people perform complex dental procedures and put patients at risk.
SHA Social Health Authority explained: cover, claims, and what Kenyans should track
A practical hub on Kenya’s Social Health Authority (SHA) transition: what universal cover is supposed to mean, where claims and packages still confuse families, and which updates to follow.
Motorcycle riders to ferry patient specimens under new Kuresoi referral system
Patients in Kuresoi North and South will no longer need long trips for some lab work as motorcycle riders join a new referral system to transport medical specimens between facilities.
MPs back SHA cover for haemophilia patients as agencies get six months to draft package
Members of Parliament are pushing Social Health Authority cover for haemophilia patients and have given health agencies about six months to draft a benefits package, including caregiver recognition.
Duale meets UK envoy to deepen Kenya–UK healthcare cooperation
Health CS Aden Duale held talks with the UK envoy on expanding Kenya–United Kingdom cooperation in healthcare as both sides reaffirm partnership on system strengthening.
Kenya and Ghana explore UHC and pharmaceutical manufacturing partnership
Kenya and Ghana are exploring deeper health cooperation focused on Universal Health Coverage, digital health, pharmaceutical manufacturing and health security.