{"id":12912,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/12912/?format=json","text_counter":468,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Prof. Anyang’-Nyong’o","speaker_title":"The Minister for Medical Services","speaker":{"id":193,"legal_name":"Peter Anyang' Nyong'o","slug":"peter-nyongo"},"content":"Now, that process, I am happy to say, is very advanced. It was a result of the recent work done by the NHIF and Delloitte. It tells us what kind of changes we need in the NHIF, so that we can have a social health insurance fund; it will then be able to fund proper health care of our people. With a proper social health insurance fund, we shall get the resources which we can use even to buy equipment. At the moment, what the NHIF can do is only buy a few ambulances here and there but that is not enough. We need to go further. It has been buying some ultrasound machines, but we want a fund big enough to buy linear accelerators for cancer radiation, Sanders knives for cancer radiation and so on. So, I do hope that in this process, we shall have, at least, a move forward in improving access to cancer treatment in our hospitals."}