CS Duale Responds To Viral Claim About SHA’s Cancer Cover
The 70-year-old cancer patient’s concerns that his treatment was not being paid for by the Social Health Authority (SHA) have been corrected by Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale.
Speaking at the TaifaCare launch in Nakuru on Thursday, July 24, Duale denied Gatamu Waigwa’s allegations, calling them untrue.
Duale stated that Waigwa needed to visit SHA’s office for any help because his insurance premium was still in effect.
NTV This is factual information on our valued patient who visited your media house two days ago . Don’t distort SHA cancer patients benefits pic.twitter.com/AoSRXx94wQ
— Hon. Aden Duale, EGH (@HonAdenDuale) July 24, 2025
“Even that elderly man you saw yesterday on NTV, we reviewed the records this morning and found that he still has an active premium. If he has any issues, he shouldn’t go to Nation Media.”
“Nation is not a hospital. He should go to the SHA office and seek help from a Community Health Promoter,” Duale said.
NTV get your facts right . Train good health care reporters . Understand how SHA works , its benefit and tariff not the old defunct NHIF . https://t.co/hIfvCsEeyW
— Hon. Aden Duale, EGH (@HonAdenDuale) July 24, 2025
In a July 22 NTV media story, Waigwa stated that he has been traveling from Nyeri to Nairobi for treatment for the past four months due to stage 3 prostate cancer.
The patient said that until the following fiscal year, SHA would no longer pay for his care.
Waigwa claimed in the widely shared video that NHIF had been smoothly paying Ksh600,000 a year for his cancer treatment.
This is Gatamu waigwa a cancer patient, & he says Sha has failed him 🙇🏾
— Sholla Ard 🇰🇪 (@sholard_mancity) July 22, 2025
Just watch this video & then tell me
Why does Duale and ruto have to lie to Kenyans that Sha is working?
I waiting for govt apologists to come and say this patient is wrong
Then u hear someone say KBB🙇🏾 pic.twitter.com/oiCQr0qAbF
But SHA cut his coverage from Ksh200,000 to Ksh400,000, he said.
“NHIF used to cover up to Ksh600,000 per year. But when SHA took over, they forced us to migrate from NHIF, and SHA robbed us. If my figures are right, SHA now only covers Ksh400,000 a year,” Waigwa stated.
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“I have written to SHA a number of times, very strong letters, but they have never even acknowledged a single one. They have never addressed the concerns I raised.”
Waigwa claimed that he is only two weeks away from finishing the Ksh92,800 cancer medicine he is now taking.
“I have two weeks left to finish the cancer medication I am currently taking, which costs Sh92,800, as well as injections totalling around Sh10,000,” he added.
“If I don’t have them, according to my doctors, the cancer will spread and kill me. I do not want to die.”
CS Duale Responds To Viral Claim About SHA’s Cancer Cover
