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NHIF declines to cover low level civil servants in some Coast hospitals

NHIF Building. [File, Standard]

The National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) Mombasa branch has terminated contracts with some hospitals and directed low-cadre civil servants to select new health facilities.

The termination of health insurance cover contracts, signed with the institutions in Mombasa and Malindi in 2012, has sparked outrage among the affected civil servants between job groups A and L as well as the hospitals, which protested that the decision was taken unilaterally.

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