Duale tells Senate SHA system under strain from fraud
NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 22 - Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale has raised alarm over what he described as widespread fraud within the country’s health Kenya breaking news | Kenya news today |..
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The Cabinet Secretary for Health, Aden Duale, has highlighted significant fraud within Kenya's Social Health Authority (SHA), revealing that digital audits have uncovered widespread abuse of the system.
- The SHA system has detected suspicious patient activity, including individuals visiting hospitals multiple times a day under different complaints, with one case showing a patient visiting five times in one day.
- Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale presented these findings to the Senate Health Oversight Committee.
- Extreme fraudulent dependency claims have been found, including one individual claiming 375 children as dependents, which are now under investigation by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI).
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