President William Ruto’s Chief economic Advisor Moses Kuria has said a new website will be created and launched in seven days to address the challenges and information gaps in the controversial Social Health Authority (SHA).

Speaking during a live TV interview on Tuesday, March 5, 2025, Kuria revealed that the government would create the website to ensure that the frequently asked questions can be answered.

“We are going to put all the information about what is covered on one public resource- taifacare.go.ke which is coming up within the next seven days so that you can go there and lodge your complaints to see which tariff is working where and which hospitals have been contracted or not,” Kuria said.

Kuria stated that while a section of leaders has expressed strong opposition to the Social Health Authority, he believes that the country is in the right trajectory, noting that the defunct National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) was marred by worse problems.

Audit report

“This so-called wonderful NHIF, how can you accumulate Ksh33 billion of debt in nine years? The fact that we have that debt is the biggest vindication of why we needed to move to SHA. If NHIF was fabulous, we should not have had that debt,” Kuria remarked.

Kuria equally expressed his reservations on the Auditor-General’s grim report on health insurance, noting that the analysis was not entirely accurate.

“An audit report is just that, an audit report. There are two stages of an audit report…I give you an audit report and then you are given a chance to respond. Then it goes to somebody who is the judge and that is Parliament, for the time being, the Auditor General’s report is just a report.”

In the auditor general’s report, the Social Health Authority (SHA) came under sharp scrutiny after the government invested Ksh104.8 billion into a system it neither owns nor has the right to tweak.

System data safety

“Ownership of the system, system components and all intellectual property rights shall remain in the ownership of the consortium except for the infrastructure which is to be transferred to the procurement,” a section of the agreement with the government stated.

Kuria, however, assured that the safety of patient data would not be compromised, noting that the data centres are domiciled in the country.

“The Digital Health Authority is the single owner of the data. They have three data centres, the main data centre and redundancy data centres, all of them within the Republic of Kenya. The data is domiciled here,” Kuria assured.