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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve",
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        "legal_name": "Getrude Musuruve Inimah",
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    "content": "(NHIF) cards. This cash transfer should address this issue, so that older people are covered by NHIF. Madam Deputy Speaker, I want to say before Sen. Sakaja on what is happening on the ground, in his capacity as the Chairman of the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare. The cash transfer is taken to a family. However, in a family, there are older people. At the same time, they also have grandchildren with disabilities. There is only one cash transfer given to that family, yet there are people with disabilities and the older people. This cash transfer should specifically benefit individuals, so that in a family, if we have an older person, let the older person benefit. If they also have children with disabilities or grandchildren, let them also benefit in their own right. This is because everyone should benefit from this cash transfer. Madam Deputy Speaker, I was looking at the internet right now. This cash transfer is now extended to those who are over 70 years. As long as you are over 70 years, whether you are rich or poor, you stand to benefit from the cash transfer. This should be interrogated. If it is a policy, let people who are over 70 years get the cash transfer. Madam Deputy Speaker, I also want to talk about NHIF. NHIF should be extended to people with terminal illnesses. For instance, people who have cancer should automatically benefit from the NHIF. This is because they need the chemotherapy. They need to periodically go hospital and find out their status and get treatment. However, there are people with terminal illnesses who do not have NHIF cards. When they are sick, the have to do harambee and fundraisings, yet they come from families that cannot support them seek medication. As a country, we have to ensure that we support our citizens to get medication. Let the older people have NHIF cards. Let people with terminal illnesses like cancer etcetera also be covered by NHIF. Let us make a follow up to find out whether we are helping these people with terminal illnesses live a productive life. This is because sometimes nobody makes a follow up. If you have cancer, nobody wants to know--- In fact, some people just count and say: “She has really stayed before dying. When is she going back to hospital? When is she coming back?” We have find out how to help these people be productive, so that we get maximum use of the benefits they have in this world. I support this Statement. Thank you."
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