UP to 90 per cent of the fees counties collect from patients for using medical equipment supplied under the new National Equipment Service Project will go to the vendors.
President William Ruto launched NESP to replace the controversial Managed Equipment Service scheme, which Parliament condemned as exploitative and conceived as a “criminal enterprise.”
The Star has established that counties, vendors and the Social Health Authority have signed a seven-year tripartite agreement under which counties will pay for the equipment – through SHA—based on actual usage.
In this fee-for-service arrangement, praised by governors but seen by critics as resembling MES, counties will retain only 10 per cent of revenues from patients’ use of the equipment.
