{"id":102444,"date":"2024-11-15T14:03:13","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T14:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/11\/15\/govt-to-settle-outstanding-dues-to-faith-based-hospitalsmwaura\/"},"modified":"2024-11-15T14:03:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T14:03:13","slug":"govt-to-settle-outstanding-dues-to-faith-based-hospitalsmwaura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/govt-to-settle-outstanding-dues-to-faith-based-hospitalsmwaura\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt to Settle Outstanding Dues to Faith-Based Hospitals:Mwaura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 15<\/strong> <strong>\u2013 The government has confirmed that it will soon clear outstanding bills owed to faith-based hospitals.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Government spokesperson Isaac Mwaura in a statement asserted that the government had already released Sh938 million to the health facilities with an additional Sh2.5 billion expected to be disbursed in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>Mwaura emphasized the government\u2019s commitment to resolving the long-standing National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) debt, which totals an estimated Sh19 billion owed to healthcare providers across the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Government is actively addressing the historical NHIF debts, including the Kshs. 19 billion owed to healthcare providers,\u201d read the statement in part.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs of now, sh 5.05 billion has been disbursed, with faith-based hospitals receiving Kshs. 938 million, and an additional Sh2.5 billion scheduled for distribution in the next few days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mwaura\u2019s statement comes in the wake of criticism from the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB) over government\u2019s failure to clear dues amounting to Sh 3 billion owed to the faith-based health facilities.<\/p>\n<p>The prelates avverd that the amount stems from dues accrued from the defunct National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF).<\/p>\n<p>The Catholic Church leaders have long been vocal on the matter of NHIF, urging the government to settle its outstanding debts to FBOs, which play a crucial role in providing healthcare to vulnerable communities across the country.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 15 \u2013 The government has confirmed that it will soon clear outstanding bills owed to faith-based hospitals. Government spokesperson Isaac Mwaura in a statement asserted that the government had already released Sh938 million to the health facilities with an additional Sh2.5 billion expected to be disbursed in the coming days. Mwaura emphasized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}