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"speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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"content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, if you read the opening notes I had mentioned earlier, the whole concept of UHC is having preventive healthcare rather than what we presently have. The reason well-to-do Kenyans live a more-healthier life than those that are of a lower income bracket is because they are able to access preventive healthcare way in advance. They can go to hospitals at the slightest headache because they are insured and get checked, and whatever they are ailing from is detected and sorted out early. If you follow through our current health expenditure, nationally or at the county government, we spend more resources at the higher levels of hospitals because by the time many of the people that we represent in this House go to hospitals, they are already extremely sick. This is because of the financial situation of many Kenyans. If they feel unwell, they opt to persevere and move along and yet, if they went to a better health facility courtesy of this proposal and the next one on improved facilities, they would get early detection of what they are suffering from. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in the stages of intervention of a disease, the earlier you detect it, the better the chances of survival you give to that patient. That is the whole concept and that is why we are trying to re-think this proposal by making our health facilities vibrant and more effective, in order to ensure that they become better. I do not intend to speak for long. I thank you and Members for indulging us. With those remarks, I beg to reply, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir."
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