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    "id": 1092162,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1092162/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Vihiga, CWR, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Beatrice Adagala",
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        "legal_name": "Beatrice Kahai Adagala",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance to also air my views concerning the National Hospital Insurance Fund (Amendment) Bill. I wish to say that health institutions in this country are in a terrible mess especially in my county where most of the people cannot afford to pay for medical services. People cannot afford to go to hospitals, and even if they do, the hospitals do not have medicine. This amendment is noble and has to be made. I know Members will bear me witness that people in the villages are suffering and especially during this COVID-19 period. So many WhatsApp groups have been created and all of them are to raise medical bills which is a big problem. Most Members can concur with me unless it is just in my area and county where all this is happening. I wish to ask the NHIF management, as the Member has said, to be aggressive like other organisations and do marketing. Apart from members’ contributions, they should be aggressive and get other members to join. Since the NHIF is the saviour of most of our people, let it be a vibrant institution. They have to do marketing to ensure that many members join it, so that it can assist most Kenyans with hospital bills which are overwhelming. We have seen bills go to over Kshs2 million and the person in question has land less than an acre. So, you wonder whether that person will sell land to pay the bills. Right now, during the COVID-19 Pandemic, the NHIF is not catering for such yet Kenyans are suffering. 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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