SHA health cover and NCPWD registration
Registering with the Social Health Authority, adding dependants, what SHA covers, and registering with the National Council for Persons with Disabilities. Answers come from each body's own pages.
Most asked
- Register for SHA (Social Health Authority / SHIF)
- Pay your SHA (SHIF) contributions: how much and how
- What SHA covers and how to get treated
- Add your spouse and children as dependants on SHA
- Appeal a disability medical assessment (ask for a re-assessment)
- Apply for a therapeutic use exemption (TUE) with ADAK
- Buy KEMRI test kits and products, or get specialised lab services
- Check a pharmacy or medicine is registered, and report fake medicine (PPB)
All 94, A to Z
- Add your spouse and children as dependants on SHA
- Appeal a disability medical assessment (ask for a re-assessment)
- Apply for a therapeutic use exemption (TUE) with ADAK
- Buy KEMRI test kits and products, or get specialised lab services
- Can a chemist sell strong medicine without a prescription?
- Can a doctor treat me without my consent?
- Can a hospital hold you over an unpaid bill?
- Can a hospital share my medical information? The law on patient confidentiality
- Can a medical insurer refuse to cover mental illness?
- Can government offices ask for proof of SHA before serving you?
- Can police take a person with mental illness to hospital?
- Can someone be admitted to a mental hospital against their will?
- Check a pharmacy or medicine is registered, and report fake medicine (PPB)
- Check if a clinical officer or their clinic is licensed
- Check if a doctor, dentist or clinic is licensed (KMPDC)
- Check if a hospital is SHA-contracted or licensed
- Check if a medical laboratory or lab professional is licensed
- Check if a nurse or midwife is licensed (NCK register)
- Check if a nutritionist or dietitian is registered (KNDI)
- Check if a physiotherapist or physiotherapy clinic is licensed (PCK)
- Check medicine recalls and safety alerts (PPB)
- Complain about a clinical officer to the Clinical Officers Council
- Complain about a doctor or hospital (medical negligence) to KMPDC
- Complain about a nurse or midwife to the Nursing Council of Kenya
- Complain about a nutritionist or dietitian
- Complain about a physiotherapist (PCK)
- Complain about HIV-related discrimination at the HIV and AIDS Tribunal
- Complain to PPB about a pharmacy, chemist or medicine seller
- Complain to SHA: refused treatment, asked to pay, wrong deductions or delays
- Complain to the Ministry of Health or ask it for information
- Contract your hospital or clinic with SHA (e-contracting)
- Controlled and prescription-only medicines (like Xanax, diazepam or tramadol): is it legal to have them?
- Do SHA means testing to set your premium (if you are not salaried)
- Drinking age and other alcohol rules
- Emergency, chronic and critical illness cover (ECCIF)
- Find a NACADA-accredited rehab centre or check if a rehab is accredited
- Free childhood vaccines and the immunisation schedule
- Get a DNA paternity or maternity test at the Government Chemist
- Get a food handler's medical certificate (Nairobi)
- Get a free HIV test, PrEP or HIV treatment
- Get a licence to possess or use X-ray machines or radioactive sources
- Get a Ministry of Health permit for health research (facilities, MoH data or samples abroad)
- Get a P3 form (police medical examination form) after an assault
- Get a seafarer medical certificate from a KMA-approved doctor
- Get a yellow fever vaccination certificate (yellow card)
- Get an aviation medical certificate (pilots, air traffic controllers, cabin crew)
- Get approval for medical treatment abroad
- Get approval to dispose of radioactive material or sources
- Get blood for a patient in hospital
- Get free sunscreen and support for persons with albinism (NCPWD)
- Get help for alcohol or drug use (NACADA helpline 1192)
- Get help for mental health: where to go, what SHA covers and your rights
- Get mental health treatment at Mathari National Teaching and Referral Hospital
- Get PPB approval to run a clinical trial in Kenya
- Get specialised or cancer treatment at Kenyatta University Teaching, Referral and Research Hospital (KUTRRH)
- Get treated at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH), Eldoret
- Get treated or book a clinic at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH)
- Get water tested at a WRA laboratory
- Harmed by a doctor or hospital's negligence: what the law lets you do
- HIV testing and discrimination: what the law says
- Is abortion legal in Kenya?
- Is attempting suicide still a crime in Kenya?
- Is euthanasia legal in Kenya? Assisted dying and DNR
- Log in to the SHA member portal (Afya Yangu) and check your status
- Maternity cover under SHA (Linda Mama)
- Medical cover for civil servants, teachers, police and prisons officers (POMSF via SHA)
- NHIF is now SHA: what changed and where to get help
- Nurse cadres in Kenya (enrolled, KRCHN, BScN) and what each can do
- Pay SHA in instalments with Lipa SHA Pole Pole
- Pay your SHA (SHIF) contributions: how much and how
- Register and get a licence as a counsellor or psychologist (and check one)
- Register as a blood donor
- Register as an employer with SHA and remit staff SHIF deductions
- Register for SHA (Social Health Authority / SHIF)
- Register with NCPWD as a person with disability (disability card)
- Report a health nuisance: overflowing sewage, rubbish, dirty premises
- Report a side effect or bad reaction to a medicine or vaccine (PPB)
- Report a suspected animal disease outbreak (anthrax, foot-and-mouth, rabies)
- Report FGM or get help to stop it (Anti-FGM Board)
- Report illegal alcohol, drug peddling or alcohol sold to minors (NACADA)
- Request alcohol and drug abuse training from NACADA (schools, workplaces, groups)
- Self-exclude from gambling (block yourself from betting)
- SHA pre-authorisation (approval) for surgery, admission or scans
- Submit and track SHA claims (for hospitals and clinics)
- Surrogacy and IVF in Kenya: what the law says
- Update your SHA details or fix a wrong registration
- What SHA covers and how to get treated
- Where smoking is banned, and who can be sold cigarettes
- Where to appeal an SHA decision you disagree with
- Where to complain about how a mental health patient was treated
- Who runs public hospitals and health centres: county or national government
- Your duties as a patient
- Your right to complain about how you were treated at a hospital
- Your right to see your medical records and know your diagnosis