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    "id": 1107415,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1107415/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1835,
        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "Further, the amendment is trying to ensure that the Board is not the one directly procuring, so that we avoid the situation we were in with Managed Equipment Services (MES) or the mess that was in the MES scandal. I say this having served as the Vice-Chair of the Public Investments Committee. The NHIF invested on land in Karen to build a referral hospital. The Fund paid out close to Kshs5 billion and it still has claims to consultants to develop the hospital. As of now, the NHIF has spent billions of shillings paying consultants, yet there is no hospital. Even the ownership of the land in respect of which the NHIF has been paying for consultancy services is in itself controversial. The Fund cannot tell that they truly own the land. We, therefore, want to avoid such a situation by ensuring that the NHIF is not involved in procurement of medical equipment. We want to allow a public hospital that needs a CT scan or a dialysis machine in an underserved area to use money advanced to it by the NHIF to procure such equipment. Of course, this is not free money. It is an advance that the NHIF would recover."
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