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    "content": "Hon. Members, regarding medical training, the number of Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) campuses has increased from 28 campuses in 2013 to 71 campuses today. This year, the number of graduates of KMTC was 3,319 compared to 111 graduates when I took over in 2013. Similarly, the number of medical doctors trained annually has shot up from 620 in 2013 to 900 medical doctors in 2021. Finally, with regards to health, my administration has prioritised the universal achievement of the right to reproductive healthcare as required by our Constitution. Indignity takes many forms and the most violating forms of these are that dispossess mothers. That is why my administration has committed itself to providing the higher standards of reproductive health through free maternity care. In 2016, my administration introduced the Linda Mama Program which has led to the increase of birth deliveries by skilled providers from 43 per cent to currently 62 per cent. This has also forced a decline in maternal mortality rates by 26 per cent. Under the Linda Mama Initiative, all pregnant women are eligible for free maternity healthcare, even those women who are not covered under NHIF. Each mother is allocated between Kshs2,500 and Kshs30,000 depending on whether the birth is normal or by caesarean section. Thus far, Linda Mama has benefitted 5.8 million Kenyan women and has saved Kenyans Kshs81.4 billion through the health insurance component of the program."
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