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Medical debt during epidemics: A case for resolving the situation in low- and middle-income countries such as Kenya

2023-07-27

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This paper evaluates the problem of medical debt in Kenya during the COVID-19 pandemic. The medical debt problem is compounded during pandemics such as COVID-19 when patients seek treatment and end up in insurmountable debt because illnesses related to the pandemic are not covered by the Kenyan National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF), the public health coverage body under government control. As a result, discharged...

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Literature Corpus work: e3e84885-ebd3-5911-9a82-84399d762499
DOI: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.18403.2

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