This will be achieved through the following strategies:
- Consolidating, expanding (new and existing) and coordinating social health subsidy mechanism for the poor with a view of achieving universal coverage;
- Provision of free maternity services in all public health facilities;
- Expanding coverage of health benefits to all the indigents;
- Establishing a national social health insurance mechanism that caters for employees, employers and the informal sector with a view to gain universal coverage;
- Reforming National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) to effectively act as a vehicle to implement the National Health Insurance Scheme;
- Designing a harmonized and progressive resource mobilization strategies targeting all sources of funds, both domestic and international;
- Strengthening programming of external funding of health through improved harmonization and alignment to sector priorities and improved reporting;
- Ensuring efficient allocation and utilization of resources;
- Progressively eliminating payment at the point of use of health services, especially by the marginalized.
