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    "id": 1032374,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mukurweini, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Anthony Kiai",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Githiaka Kiai",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. This was an Adjournment Motion to discuss a matter of urgent national importance, that is the inability by the NHIF to cover hospital bills for COVID-19 cases. According to the Cabinet Secretary in the Ministry of Health, the cost burden of financing COVID-19, testing and treatment for NHIF beneficiaries, both in the national scheme and enhanced medical schemes will not be financially viable since it was not envisaged in the current NHIF premiums, computations and existing benefits package. So, he pointed out that pandemics and epidemics are exclusions in health insurance due to their nature in terms of cost and risk modeling with uncertainties, beneficiary access, claims, reimbursements, scope definition and treatment. It is on that note that I bring this Motion. COVID-19 is ravaging this country. Since the first case was reported in March 2020, it has spread across the country like bushfire. The disease is transmitted mostly by air and close contact hence it is a silent and stealthy spreader. Currently, it has killed many people in the medical profession. We have heard of cases from the media, teachers, lawyers, and ordinary people who have suffered the poisoned chalice of COVID-19. It is killing black and white, whether you are short or tall; it is killing anybody, young and old alike. Even in this Parliament, quite a number of MPs have suffered from COVID-19, but they have lived to tell the story. I want to put it on record that it is because of the medical package that Members of Parliament enjoy that the low mortality in Parliament is being experienced. Otherwise, out there people are dying because of COVID-19. Personally, I suffered from COVID- The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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