The Ethics and Anticorruption Commission (EACC) renewed its efforts to deal with dozens of hospitals involved in corrupt deals touching on National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) claims. “The commission has averted a loss of approximately Ksh32.5 billion through proactive investigations and disruption of graft networks,” Wabukala revealed. Daily NationWabukala also indicated that EACC is pursuing the forfeiture of corruptly acquired assets and unexplained wealth worth Ksh33 billion in courts across the country. “The fraud is happening between a hospital and a citizen and our public education awareness is geared towards making Kenyans know that participating in that is just making health very expensive,” he stated. In the last couple of years, some private hospitals were in the limelight after it emerged that they had defrauded NHIF through fake medical claims.

Source: Daily Nation December 15, 2022 07:01 UTC