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    "content": "and for the most part, the price of water has been higher than that of rent. This „poverty of dignity‟ is well illustrated when one considers that the price of water for the rest of Nairobi is Kshs46 per 1,000 litres. Put differently, the dwellers of informal settlements have been paying 25 times more for water compared to the rest of Nairobi dwellers. This is why the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) has set up 1,600 water points in the informal settlements to supply free water to the residents. This initiative has saved dwellers of these settlements up to 20 per cent of their incomes or approximately Kshs1,200 per household. This is what I am calling freedom from „want‟. Hon. Speakers, one of the most indignifying challenges of our people has been the high cost of healthcare. There are many testimonies of how families have had to sell their ancestral land to cater for high medical bills. This not only rips them of dignity, but it also deprives future generations of ancestral address. The objective of my administration is to end this by providing 100 per cent Universal Health Coverage (UHC) for essential health services starting this year. The constitutional right to healthcare is the element that my administration has been consistently working to fulfill by investing in health facilities, medical equipment and human resources for health. Our success in this arena has been lauded internationally. According to the Health Care Index, which gives a single measure of the state of each country‟s health system based on data provided by the World Health Organisation (WHO), Kenya ranks third behind South Africa and Tunisia, among the most improved healthcare systems in Africa in the year 2020. To achieve this, my administration has worked to increase access, affordability and availability of health care services for all Kenyans. Access speaks to the geographical availability of health care facilities and services. Affordability speaks to both the cost of healthcare services and the ability of Kenyans to pay for those medical services. Availability speaks to the extent to which our health care facilities have the necessary resources to meet the health needs of Kenyans. In terms of access to healthcare, when my administration took over in 2013, the number of health facilities across the country stood at 4,430. My administration, in conjunction with county governments, has increased our medical facilities by 43 per cent by building 1,912 new hospitals in the last eight years. This is an average of 239 new facilities per year. In context, in the previous 118 years only, only 4,430 hospitals had been built in Kenya, an average of 37 hospitals per year. However, under my administration we have built six times more hospitals per year than all four previous administrations combined."
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