No cash, no ambulance: Dispute over Governor Cheboi pledge exposes cracks in Baringo health system
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Baringo County Governor Benjamin Cheboi when he appeared before the County Public Investments and Special Funds Committee at Bunge Tower Nairobi on June 19, 2025.
For many families, the difference between policy and practice is not just administrative but urgent, costly, and at times, fatal.
The delays have left residents questioning whether access to healthcare is being quietly rationed by ability to pay.
A simmering dispute over ambulance charges in Baringo has laid bare deeper cracks in the county’s healthcare system, exposing a painful disconnect between official claims and the lived reality of patients.
At the centre of the storm is Governor Benjamin Cheboi, whose assertion that ambulance services for referred patients are free has sparked outrage among residents who say they are routinely forced to pay thousands of shillings often in life-and-death situations.
