{"id":3125,"date":"2025-06-30T09:19:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T09:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/?p=3125"},"modified":"2025-06-30T09:19:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T09:19:58","slug":"cs-duale-warns-against-fraud-as-government-shuts-down-35-health-facilities-over-sha-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/2025\/06\/30\/cs-duale-warns-against-fraud-as-government-shuts-down-35-health-facilities-over-sha-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"CS Duale Warns Against Fraud as Government Shuts Down 35 Health Facilities Over SHA Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nairobi, June 30- Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale has raised the alarm over a surge in fraudulent activity targeting the newly established Social Health Authority (SHA), warning both healthcare workers and patients against abusing the system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement issued on Sunday, June 29, Duale revealed that some clinics, medical personnel, and even patients are exploiting loopholes to siphon funds from the SHA\u2014Kenya\u2019s new health financing body that replaced NHIF in October 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese actions are illegal, unethical, and a betrayal of the trust placed in our health system,\u201d Duale said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the fraudulent practices flagged were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Faking hospital admissions to inflate claims<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Converting outpatient visits into inpatient claims<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Using patient codes to claim for services not rendered<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Admitting \u201cghost patients\u201d who don\u2019t exist<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Billing both SHA and patients for the same treatment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of a crackdown, the ministry has closed down 35 private health facilities implicated in the scheme. The affected clinics are spread across Nairobi, Kisumu, Bungoma, Busia, Kilifi, Kajiado, Wajir, and Mandera counties. Duale said the matter has been forwarded to the <strong>DCI<\/strong> for investigations, with individual health workers and patients also under review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The announcement has triggered public debate, with many Kenyans questioning whether SHA has improved on NHIF\u2019s flaws\u2014or simply inherited them. Critics pointed out that the very fraud SHA was meant to prevent is already taking root.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ruto administration recently partnered with a Safaricom-led consortium in a KSh104 billion tech deal meant to digitize and secure SHA operations. However, the effectiveness of the system is now under intense public scrutiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Duale insisted the government will act decisively: \u201cWe will take strong and swift action against any individual or institution found culpable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi, June 30- Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale has raised the alarm over a surge in fraudulent activity targeting the newly established Social Health Authority (SHA), warning both healthcare workers and patients against abusing the system. In a statement issued on Sunday, June 29, Duale revealed that some clinics, medical personnel, and even patients are exploiting loopholes to siphon funds from the SHA\u2014Kenya\u2019s new health financing body that replaced NHIF in October 2024. \u201cThese actions are illegal, unethical, and a betrayal of the trust placed in our health system,\u201d Duale said. Among the fraudulent practices flagged were: As part of a crackdown, the ministry has closed down 35 private health facilities implicated in the scheme. The affected clinics are spread across Nairobi, Kisumu, Bungoma, Busia, Kilifi, Kajiado, Wajir, and Mandera counties. Duale said the matter has been forwarded to the DCI for investigations, with individual health workers and patients also under review. The announcement has triggered public debate, with many Kenyans questioning whether SHA has improved on NHIF\u2019s flaws\u2014or simply inherited them. Critics pointed out that the very fraud SHA was meant to prevent is already taking root. The Ruto administration recently partnered with a Safaricom-led consortium in a KSh104 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3127,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125\/revisions\/3127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.moradiofm.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}