The Trade Union Congress of Kenya Secretary-General Wilson Sossion (center) with National Hospital Insurance Fund Chairman Mahmud Ali and TUC-K chairman Tom Ondege (right) and other officials addressing Journalists after a joint consultative meeting between NHIF and TUC-K on the proposed NHIF rates, in Naivasha on January 30, 2015. TUC-K recommended that NHIF should suspend the gazettement and implementation of the new Act pending determination of contentious issues among them contribution to be a variable rate pegged at 1.5 percent of the employee’s basic pay and the government to pay twice the members contributions.