Covid-19 has badly exposed our deficient healthcare infrastructure, indicating that we have only concentrated on prevention and cure. 1/7

How to ensure everyone is able to pay for healthcare in a situation where one mismanaged infection can bring down nation is a matter Africa must confront with urgency. 2/7

With Covid-19, one person left to own devices is too much for everyone. We attempted Universal Health Care under the NARC and the grand coalition governments. But “tenderpreneurs” ganged up against it. 3/7

NHIF must be strengthened to continue with provision of comprehensive medical cover. We need to review domination of our healthcare by donors in terms of funding and agenda setting while Kenya boasts of a very highly trained health workforce. 4/7

When donors are overwhelmed in their own countries as is the case now, we are left badly exposed. Kenyatta University students have challenged us that with encouragement from government and private sector, innovation for healthcare can be done here, by us 5/7

What what have we done with the Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri) and its equivalents across Africa? 6/7

Lets question the dominance of US CDC over Kemri and its equivalents in Africa and seek ways to make these institutions independent, more attuned to Africa’s needs. 7/7