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    "id": 1028966,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kasanga",
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        "legal_name": "Sylvia Mueni Kasanga",
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    "content": "of the Third Progress Report. We were doing our second round of engagement and so we were receiving the progress report from the CAS. The Ministry of Health also tabled before the committee documents on the funds that had been committed by the National Government and received from the development partners in support of the fight against the COVID-19. A detailed breakdown of those funds was tabled and the Ministry reported that by 9th September 2020, it had received a total of Kshs23.4 billion comprising Kshs17.7 billion from Government revenue and Kshs6.7 billion from external funding. The report further indicated that a total of Kshs9.2 billion had been disbursed to the counties in this manner; Kshs5 billon as conditional grant for the COVID-19 emergency response, Kshs2.36 billion as emergency allowances for frontline workers for three months, Kshs350 million from DANIDA was given as grants to Level 2 and Level 3 public hospitals and Kshs1.5 billion was given as emergency response support for the Level 4 hospitals. The report from the Ministry of Health also detailed in chapter two of this report and all the annexures are there for Senators to peruse and see. The Ministry of Health having engaged with the county governments and other stake holders on health related aspects of the pandemic fell under thematic area one of how we had organized ourselves as a Committee. It is my duty to inform the House that the mandate has been officially handed back to the Standing Committee on Health. We shall formally transmit all the documents and reports in the areas that are outstanding for the Committee on Health to follow up in our final exit report. We shall look forward to getting reports from the Committee on Health on matters to do with COVID-19. In July 2020, the Committee directed the Controller of Budget to submit to the Committee a Special Budget Review Implementation Report on utilization of funds by County Governments towards COVID-19 interventions, covering the period from 13th March, 2020, when the first COVID-19 case in Kenya was recorded, to 31st July, 2020. The Controller of Budget undertook the review and submitted the Report to the Committee on 21st August, 2020. The Report provides an analysis of the counties’ cumulative funds and expenditure on COVID-19, clustered as funding from the National Government, Grants from Development Partners and County own contributions. The total funds that were available from 13th March to 31st July 2020 to the County Governments for COVID-19 interventions amounted to Kshs13.1 billion. This amount consisted of Kshs.5 billion from the National Government through the Ministry of Health (MOH) for COVID-19 towards quarantine and isolation expenditure; Kshs2.36 billion from the National Government through (MOH) for allowances for Front Line Health Care Workers; Kshs350 million from DANIDA as a grant support Level 2 and Level 3 Health Facilities to fight the pandemic; and Kshs5.39 billion from county own funds. The report did not include the funds received directly by County Governments as donations. The total expenditure by County Governments during the period was Kshs.3.43 billion and translated to an absorption rate of 33.2 per cent. The absorption rate is calculated as a percentage of actual expenditure to budgeted amount for COVID-19 during the period. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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