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National Assembly Departmental Committee on Health Chairman James Nyikal during a meeting to consider the 2026 Budget Policy Statement at Parliament Buildings, Nairobi, on February 23, 2026. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]
National Assembly Health Committee Chairperson James Nyikal has said that strategic health programmes like HIV, Malaria, TB and blood have been a target of unilateral budget cuts in supplementary budgets, causing severe stockout of critical commodities.
Dr Nyikal, who made a presentation before the National Assembly Budget Appropriation Committee, warned that supplementary budget cuts have hampered the government's ability to meet the agreed-upon co-financing/counterpart funding for donor-funded projects.
He said postgraduate medical trainees undertaking specialist training in Kenyatta National Hospital, Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, and Kenyatta University Teaching, Referral and Research Hospital continue to receive salaries from respective counties despite providing clinical services and undergoing training within institutions managed and funded by the national government.
