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    "id": 1291298,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mandago",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13577,
        "legal_name": "Kiplagat Jackson Mandago",
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    "content": "contractors who were contracted on managed equipment should not rest until they make sure they supply all the equipment they were contracted to supply to our counties. Further, if there is any allegation that a county was not ready to receive that equipment and they paid for it, that equipment should be supplied, taken to the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Ministry should donate to any county or a national facility that is ready to use them. However, there is no way suppliers should go away with Kenyan funds without supplying. It is equivalent to paying for oxygen. You cannot have a field day, yet you did not manufacture or supply, they were not inspected and received and funds have been paid. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, on the allocation for maintenance under the Kshs5.8 billion, which is under the managed equipment, I urge the MOH that even if there is a need to maintain that equipment, the cost of maintenance of the equipment that was not supplied should be deducted from that whole figure. The cost of that contract should be anything less that the Kshs5.8 billion. This is because you cannot service what you never supplied. It cannot be that, that figure is based on the overall expectation that a supplier was supposed to deliver all this equipment; they failed to deliver part of that equipment and they are paid again the total sum figure of maintenance of that equipment. That will be unfair to the citizens of this country and we would expect the MOH to make sure that they are only paying for services that have been consumed. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I still agree with the framers and the designers of the programme that the managed equipment was and is still a good programme. It only needs to be properly engineered and made to provide value for money for whatever we are doing. Part of the funds in the additional allocations is a grant from the Danish International Development Agency in Kenya (DANIDA). The grant from DANIDA has been supporting our facilities and is a good example of a fund that has helped improve health in counties. This is the first programme that supported facilities directly at the facility level; that counties were required to receive the money and send to the health facilities, so that any shortcomings of budgetary provisions from counties, would be catered for by these funds. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, that is why I thank this honourable House for passing the Facilities Improvement Financing Bill. This Bill is going to revolutionize health management and empower the community and facilities in order for them to discharge services to wananchi, so that when the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) package is rolled out and facilities will be adequately prepared now that there is legislation. We are also encouraging the national Government and other development partners to now send funds directly to the facilities, so that the decision making and the turnaround time it takes on the provision of non-pharma, pharmaceuticals or any other items that need to be procured is shortened; and that funds are available at facilities and citizens do not have to go to any facility and get referred to any other facility, other than where it is necessary to have a referral."
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