{"id":122201,"date":"2025-09-28T08:10:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T08:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/09\/28\/govt-to-list-all-inmates-on-sha-by-year-end-to-tackle-disease-burden-in-prisons\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T08:10:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T08:10:17","slug":"govt-to-list-all-inmates-on-sha-by-year-end-to-tackle-disease-burden-in-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/govt-to-list-all-inmates-on-sha-by-year-end-to-tackle-disease-burden-in-prisons\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt to list all inmates on SHA by year end to tackle disease burden in prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MERU, Kenya, Sept 28 \u2013 Correctional Services Principal Secretary Salome Beacco has announced that the government will place all inmates under the Social Health Authority (SHA) by the end of the year in a bid to curb the spread of disease in correctional facilities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Beacco noted that sexual offenders account for nearly 40 per cent of the prison population hence the need for urgent action.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Meru on Sunday, Beacco said the high number of inmates jailed for sexual offences has fueled overcrowding and created health challenges within the prison system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlmost 40 percent of the problems I have are due to sexual offences \u2013 rape, sodomy, gender-based violence,\u201d she said, adding that Meru alone hosts nearly 1,000 such offenders. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy prisons are overcrowded, overfilled, and this brings other problems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The PS warned that the congestion and high concentration of offenders has worsened the spread of communicable diseases such as gonorrhea, syphilis, and HIV, while straining already limited medical resources.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe highest prevalence of HIV incidences is here in Meru. I don\u2019t have money for medicines,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She added that enrolling inmates on SHA would ensure continuous access to treatment and improve disease management across facilities.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MERU, Kenya, Sept 28 \u2013 Correctional Services Principal Secretary Salome Beacco has announced that the government will place all inmates under the Social Health Authority (SHA) by the end of the year in a bid to curb the spread of disease in correctional facilities. Beacco noted that sexual offenders account for nearly 40 per cent [&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-122201","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\/122201","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=122201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}