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    "id": 1031934,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kasanga",
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        "legal_name": "Sylvia Mueni Kasanga",
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    "content": "We are happy that mental health will be a priority. I have always urged all the advocates of mental health who we have worked together and continually worked to help Kenyans, to continue speaking about it and putting pressure so that we can see a whole new overhaul of the sector. I laud the President on the Universal Health Care (UHC) roll out which is commendable. When talking about liberating the poor, the poverty of dignity caused by inadequate service, especially when it comes to the issue of health. UHC is the way to go. Although there have been a few challenges, we must say, it is the right step. Every journey must start with a step in the right direction and for that, we commend him. We know the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) has to undergo serious rehabilitation; an overhaul to look at the challenges it is going through. At one point, I was sitting in the Committee on Health as a friend to the Committee. We listened to NHIF and the reforms it will undergo. We are looking forward to those reforms because NHIF is at the centre of UHC. It is important that it is supported, so that the reforms are done quickly to help Kenyans. We have seen some of the fruits of NHIF. Though they are going through challenges now, it has helped Kenyans. We know it is a step towards the right direction. Once it has been resolved, we can appreciate when the President says he has seen the vision of the future of this country. Madam Deputy Speaker, I will touch a little bit on the issue of schools where the President in his Speech mentioned the decongestion of schools using all available resources and rolling out of guidelines to school infrastructure for use of appropriate technology. He also talked about cost effective building technologies, suited for different geographical areas, as well as pushing for standardized Bills of Quantities (BQs). This is an issue of construction and a bit technical, which I appreciate. This is something we should have thought of. Governors should have thought of doing something like this so that we have a standardized method of building classrooms. At the moment, there is a huge gap because the President was talking about construction of 12,500 classrooms. We appreciate the new Competency based Curriculum (CBC) system that is hoping to correct the ills and where we went wrong with the 8-4-4 system. I am a user of CBC with my children who have seen the benefits of the CBC system. With the lack of infrastructure in our schools, there is work that needs to be done towards that and making sure the infrastructure is right, so that all children get the fair equal amount of infrastructure as well as resources towards the rolling out of the CBC system. I am happy the President is talking about a standardized method of construction as well as looking at different appropriate technologies for different geographical areas. This I commend. On the Big Four Economic Development Strategy and Framework, starting with liberation of the urban poor, I am a supporter of the affordable housing scheme. Time and again, I have had conversations with the Principal Secretary so that we can see where we can help. Our fraternity, the Architectural Association of Kenya (AAK) has worked closely with the Ministry to help them rolling out this part of the Big Four Agenda of affordable housing."
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