At least 15 million Kenyans have already registered with the new Social Health Authority (SHA) scheme.
This is as of Thursday, November 28, 2024.
Data from the authority shows 9, 752,780 of these are voluntary registrations.
From the over 9,752,780 voluntary SHA registrations, at least 3.6 million are aged between 18 and 35 years old, 3.33 million are aged between 36 to 55 years, while over 1.37 million are above 55 years old.
Some 1.45 million are aged below 18 years.
The remaining 5,806,646 were migrated from the now-defunct National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF).