Led by Mlango Kubwa Ward Representative Patricia Mutheu on Wednesday, Nairobi ward representatives opposed City Hall’s bid to renew a one billion medical insurance cover, saying it should instead be used to improve health facilities in the county.
Ms Mutheu said the medical cover being paid to the AAR Insurance company is such a huge sum used on them yet the public’s medical facilities are suffering.
“We want the money we are paying to AAR to be used to equip county health facilities. Why are we spending such colossal amounts of money on medical cover yet our county’s health facilities have no medicine?” posed Ms Mutheu.
The ward reps have faulted the executive for contracting AAR Kenya to provide health insurance cover to over 12, 000 City Hall staff.
Ms Mutheu asked: “How can you put someone else’s house in order while yours is not? This is an injustice to Nairobi residents. How many health facilities are well equipped, how many have enough medicine and nurses?
The representatives now want Governor Mike Sonko to reconsider the deal.
AAR is reported to have been receiving between Sh1.06 and Sh1.3 billion annually for City Hall workers since former Governor Evans Kidero’s tenure.