Kenyatta National Hospital to Set Up Sh15 Billion Private Medical Facility
Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) is reportedly planning to set up a private hospital at a cost of Sh15 billion.
The seven-storey private medical facility is expected to fund public services in the parent institution, according to Business Daily.
In a public notice published in the newspapers, KNH indicated the 300-bed private facility will sit on 3.6 hectares and will be put up under a public-private partnership (PPP).
“Kenyatta National Hospital Board (KNHB) now wishes to have developed a separate private hospital (the Project) under a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement that will serve fee-paying private patients, hence providing a source of additional funding to support the main public hospital,” says the published request for qualification (RFQ) notice.
The level 6 hospital will offer premium services and its parking lot will have the capacity to accommodate 500 cars at a go. Its construction is expected to begin next year.
“The prospective bidder must have acted as a hospital operator for not less than five years in a performance-based Level 6 specialist healthcare facility under a public-public partnership contract or a privately run Level 6 facility with a minimum 300 beds,” says the RFQ.
The feasibility study for the private hospital is being undertaken by Ernst & Young and will the first healthcare public-private partnership (PPP) project in Kenya. Under PPP, investors build and own a facility for a number of years to recoup their money and make a profit before handing it over to the State.
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This is a disaster in the making. Why can't this private company build it's own hospital? There is nothing good that will come out of mixing private and public institutions. These two entities serve different purpose. This is receipe for disaster. The public hospital has served the public from its foundation. Now we are calling for greed motivated private companies to come in, claim how much they have invested in the hospital and eventually say that they could not recover their investment and take over the public hospital and demand payment from the public.
In short, Kenyans are donating the public hospital to private corrupt companies.
This is wrong and the public hospital should be left as such.
Private companies need to do their ground work, not steal from the public. This is theft in broad daylight.
These investors who are calling themselves private will end up being foreigners stealing from Kenyans.
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In reply to This is a disaster in the… by Anonymous UI (not verified)
It's even OXYMORONic and confusing for Business Daily to say that "The seven-storey PRIVATE medical facility is expected to fund PUBLIC services in the parent institution." Anyway.....
This will end up being a…
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This will end up being a welfare check by Kenyans to a private foreign corporation. New kind of slavery in the making!!!
This idea need re-assessment…
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This idea need re-assessment because healthcare has changed a lot. Healthcare is shifting towards HOME HEALTH!. Research has shown that patients recuperate faster at home and infections are minimal. Home health is cost effective and patient's security is guaranteed. So Why waste such amount of money when the world is changing?. That money need to be channeled to home health.
Due to our leaders…
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Due to our leaders incompetence and lack of vision, our misery and death will be left to "private and profit". As we go to the grave, some "so called foreign investors" will be laughing all the way to the bank.
There is no different…
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There is no different between this idea and the parallel programs in the universities which the government later abolished.(many lecturers went on parallel programs and took anybody who could pay the high fees). If I am a doctor who knows that I will be paid more money working in this new PPP, then the question becomes why do I want to work for the government. Secondly, How many Kenyans can offered this premium services? The biggest impediment to healthcare in Kenya is corruption. We just need a single payer system with sliding cost based on income. Dont give it for free otherwise many will abuse it.
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