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    "id": 1032437,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1032437/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kwanza, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ferdinand Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to request this House to pronounce itself on this problem. The problem is there and people are dying. I want to thank Hon. Anthony Kiai for coming up with this Motion. The solution is not to beg anybody, but to pronounce ourselves so as to provide leadership in this country. I want to propose that we establish another fund to cater for this problem. I propose that we change the NHIF to NSHC. We can have that package and ask members of our community to start fundraising. The Cabinet Secretary announced that the NHIF can no longer cover COVID-19 patients. There is nothing we can do and tomorrow we could be the ones affected. I mentioned this afternoon that if we got COVID-19 today, how do we get to better facilities? The county hospitals do not have oxygen and that is why our brother, the Member for Matungu, died. He went for almost 15 kilometres looking for a hospital. We should have a package that includes a fully-equipped helicopter so that if something happens in any remote area, you have a special number that you can call and they come for you. If you are in Nairobi, let us have ambulances using the same funds to rescue whoever it is. As it is, if it happened where you are, it is on you and your family. I am suggesting to the Clerk of this House to create a special number and have the rescue helicopters in case something happens. Therefore, I want this House to pronounce itself and start another Fund alongside NHIF to provide for this treatment. I rest my case."
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