The government has replied to charges that the Adani Group, an embattled Indian company, was involved in the Social Health Authority’s (SHA) implementation.
Government Spokesperson Isaac Mwaura denied the charges and went on to provide his rationale.
“There is NO contract between SHA and any service provider on digitization of Universal Healthcare Software,” the statement read in part.
According to Mwaura, SHA inherited an existing contract between the defunct NHIF and the service providers of the system they used, HICS.
“SHA is part of the bigger health digitization agenda that involves KEMSA, Regulators KMPDC, PPB, Nursing Council, etc (17 regulators) Health Care providers- hospitals and health care workers devices, connectivity, power back up, licenses, etc,” said Mwaura.
He also accused cartels of linking Adani to SHA, claiming they benefited from the now-defunct NHIF at the expense of residents.
Mwaura also reacted to a fact-checking examination of President William Ruto’s State of the Nation Address conducted by Nation Media Group on Thursday, November 21.
The media house fact-checked five sections of Ruto’s address and discovered that some of the president’s claims were untrue, others were true, and some could not be independently verified.
NTV fact-checked Ruto’s comments about spending cuts beginning in 2022 and discovered they were inaccurate.
Ruto’s claims of a 14% increase in milk output were proved to be untrue.
Regarding the clearing of pending health claims, the media outlet was unable to verify the assertions, and the assumption that the government is listening to Kenyans did not match industry data.
On the assertion that the government has digitized services from 350 to 20,855, representing nearly 6000% expansion, the media house could not independently validate the data but confirmed that the arithmetic was correct.
Responding to the fact-check, Mwaura denounced the report as fake.
He argued that the publication’s milk production figures were wrong and that the information provided was misleading.
“Their stated source, the May 2024 Economic Survey, clearly indicates that the figures they cited for 2023 were only provisional,” Mwaura stated.
“Consequently, their fact-check of the President’s State of the Nation Address is thus incorrect, misleading and unwarranted.”
Mwaura insisted that Ruto’s claims were true and that milk output will increase by 14% to 5.2 billion liters in 2023.
He went on to say that the administration intends to enhance cattle production and continue to increase populations.
