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    "id": 1031642,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1031642/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Uhuru Kenyatta",
    "speaker_title": "His Excellency the President",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 168,
        "legal_name": "Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta",
        "slug": "uhuru-kenyatta"
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    "content": "Last year, I informed Parliament that the national Government, in partnership with the county governments, was piloting the UHC programme in the counties of Nyeri, Machakos, Kisumu and Isiolo in preparation for a roll out nationwide. I am pleased today to report that the pilot programme for the UHC was successfully implemented, and out of it we have isolated critical learning points that have informed enhancements to my administration’s health policy priorities, going forward. As we inch closer to the national rollout of the UHC, a fortnight ago in Mombasa, I launched the biometric registration for the UHC Scheme. Similarly, my administration is instituting far-reaching reforms of the NHIF as its perfects the medical insurance scheme. Hon. Speakers, it is notable that there has been phenomenal increase in mental illness across the country and, indeed, around the world, which has caused serious national distress and anguish in our families. As a caring Government, I have established an office in the Ministry of Health, with the full responsibility of spearheading our national response to this latest disruption to our social order and our nation’s wellness. To institutionalize this seminal initiative, I, have issued an Executive Order establishing an ultra-modern National Mental Health Hospital and also elevated Mathari National Teaching and Referral Hospital (MNTRH) as a semi-autonomous specialized hospital. I shall be looking to this House to support in the funding of this facility."
}