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    "id": 1211044,
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    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "of the National Health Insurance Fund Act to even allow NHIF to have systems where they can use biometrics to identify patients when they attend hospitals. The Departmental Committee on Health or whichever other committee which will handle this matter should ensure that students can be identified biometrically. We also made it compulsory for every Kenyan who attains the age of 18 to be registered under NHIF. The opportunity to register students when they are still in school is the best opportunity to take their biometrics when they are still in school. After school, they enjoy all the benefits of having a medical cover. Therefore, after high school, university and even in their working careers, they will have been socialised with idea of medical insurance. I really want to beg the Departmental Committee on Health under Hon. (Dr.) Pukose to look at how they can deal with the technicalities, especially of the biometric identification of students in conjunction with the Ministry of Education. If the NEMIS captures students at the time they are sitting their Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examinations and even with the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) at Grade Six, there is no reason that same NEMIS cannot be integrated with the NHIF system. They can take biometrics at the NHIF and use the two systems in an integrated manner, so that every student who is in a classroom can benefit. In every school, a teacher knows the number of students in the classroom. If they still do what we used to do when we were in school, by having a register that they call out every morning, then the question is: What is so difficult with the Ministry of Education getting the same data and ensuring every student within a school is registered in NEMIS and the biometrics are also registered with NHIF? Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I beg to support the Petition."
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