NHIF Covers full costs for PET CT Scan at Aga Khan

National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) will henceforth cover full costs for patients going for Positron Emission Tomography (PET) CT scans at the Aga Khan University Hospital.

This is the first to be provided in East and Central Africa Region, where initially patients got suc scans in India, Turkey, the US and South Africa. Initially, the cost for the service was set to Ksh 100,000, but is now down to Ksh 69,500.

“We originally thought the cost would go to Ksh100,000. We could not go any lower than Ksh69,500 and this is much better than what it would cost to have it done in America or even South Africa,” said Sudhir Vinayak, chair of the Department of Radiology.

Vinayak confirmed that Patients will be able to seek medication from other hospitals after the scan from the Aga Khan Hospital machine, which which he says can study the body in an extraordinary detail.

“This is not an Aga Khan Hospital only machine, it is for the entire country and we have also done scans for patients who travelled from Rwanda and Burundi who sought treatment elsewhere,” he said.

Its services will be offered as an outpatient procedure unless the patient is already admitted to the hospital. So far, the machine has conducted 15 scans and has the capacity to do up to 36 a day.

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