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    "id": 1248770,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Chuka/Igambang’ombe, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Patrick Ntwiga",
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    "content": "targeted vulnerable households. In an effort to change buyers from curative to preventive and promotive health, the Government is focused on strengthening primary healthcare through resourcing primary health facilities, establishing primary care networks and strengthening community health services. This means we want to move this country more from concentrating on curative to preventive and promotive healthcare. We need to save on the money spent on curing diseases that we can prevent. It is against this backdrop that the Committee approved the allocation of Ksh1 billion for recruitment of 44,444 community health volunteers who will steer the revitalisation of primary healthcare in the country. In establishing community health networks, we need community health workers who will be in charge of households, so that we can detect diseases and health problems in the community as they arise. The proposed budget for the Financial Year 2023/2024 is prepared based on the BETA approach. That is the Bottom Up Economic Transformation Approach of the Kenya Kwanza Government. It sets out the priority programmes and reforms to be implemented. The agenda is geared towards economic turn- around and inclusive growth and it aims to increase investment in five sectors. It is against this backdrop that the Departmental Committee on Health approved Ksh20 billion for the BETA model. This includes increasing accessibility to UHC and local manufacturing of vaccines. We realised that 60 years after Independence, we buy all vaccines from outside the country yet Kenya has the capacity to produce its vaccines. As a Committee, we want to empower the Ministry of Health so that Kenya can start producing its own vaccines and stop all importations. We also want to digitalise health records in this country so that we can know our health statuses and the diseases to concentrate on, and what causes what disease in whichever area. I beg to support this Report. On behalf of the Departmental Committee on Health, we thank the Budget and Appropriations Committee. Thank you."
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