The Government’s position on increment in monthly NHIF contributions to 2%

<p>The Government has refuted claims that it intends to increase the monthly National Hospital Insurance Fund&comma; NHIF&comma; contributions for Kenyans benefiting from the medical scheme&period; This comes after the local dailies carried a headline story yesterday&comma; Thursday November 2018&comma; claiming that the government intended to increase the monthly subscriptions to two percent of the employees&&num;8217&semi; salaries&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Through the Cabinet Secretary to the Ministry of Health&comma; Sicily K&period; Kariuki&comma; said &&num;8216&semi;the government does not intend to raise NHIF monthly deduction for workers to 2&percnt;&period; When the time comes for any increase&comma; public participation&comma; including that of the workers will be undertaken&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; the government continues to register all house holds in readiness for the roll out of the Universal Health Care in December&period; &&num;8220&semi;In preparation for the launch of  the Universal Health Care by H&period;E&period; Uhuru Kenyatta in December &lpar;2018&rpar;&comma; the Ministry of health is undertaking registration of all households in the four pilot counties&colon; Kisumu&comma; Isiolo&comma; Machakos and Nyeri&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said CS Kariuki yesterday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The CS said the registration will be done from house to house to ensure all Kenyans are registered&period; &&num;8220&semi;Registration will be done door to door over the next couple of weeks&period; Each household shall receive a Universal Health Care Card&period; Kenyans in these four pilot counties can&comma; upon the Universal Health Care launch by H&period;E&period; <a class&equals;"twitter-atreply pretty-link js-nav" dir&equals;"ltr" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;UKenyatta" data-mentioned-user-id&equals;"183165874"><b>Uhuru Kenyatta<&sol;b><&sol;a>&comma; access services in public health facilities&comma;&&num;8221&semi; CS Kariuki added&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pbs&period;twimg&period;com&sol;media&sol;DsDtkMeXcAEHtdE&period;jpg" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><em>Photo- Health CS&comma; Sicily Kariuki&comma; on an immunization drive&comma; recently&period; The Ministry of Health has assured Kenyans of the highest level of Ebola outbreak preparedness measures put in place to safeguard against any risk of an outbreak&comma; even as it continues to strengthen resilience to public health emergencies&period;<&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Universal Health Care is one of the President&&num;8217&semi;s agenda in the big four agenda&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;