{"id":2718,"date":"2019-05-27T08:12:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T08:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=2718"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:19","slug":"firm-decries-high-cost-of-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/05\/27\/firm-decries-high-cost-of-healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"Firm Decries High-Cost of Healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By JOHN MUTUA<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>High cost of medicine and related\nequipment is a major hindrance to achievement of universal healthcare, experts\nhave warned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mission for Essential Drugs and\nSupplies (MEDS) Managing Director Jane Masiga said while there is need to adopt\nthe latest technology in treating patients, most healthcare providers have\nshunned the equipment due to high costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTaxing simple products such as\ngloves makes healthcare expensive. The government can assist in lowering costs\nof access by relooking at the tax regime on non-pharmaceutical products,\u201d Dr\nMasiga said last week. She added that there is need for more funding by the\ngovernment to ensure public hospitals purchase the latest equipment\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/business\/Firm-decries--high-cost-of--healthcare\/996-5132356-1xxouhz\/index.html\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN MUTUA High cost of medicine and related equipment is a major hindrance to achievement of universal healthcare, experts have warned. Mission for Essential Drugs and Supplies (MEDS) Managing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}