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    "id": 1298946,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung'wah",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Allow me to join the Chairman and Dr. Nyikal in congratulating the members of the Departmental Committee on Health, where Dr. Nyikal also sits, and the whole House for radically changing the architecture of our healthcare system in the country. Changing it, not just radically but positively, in favour of the people we represent. I agree with Hon. Nyikal that there is an opportunity for improvement. I also speak to the Ministry of Health and our county governments. In this day and age, there is no reason why a small health facility cannot be integrated into the Integrated Financial Management System (IFMIS) so that even a district accountant at the sub-county level is a mandatory signatory. The officers at the health facility should not be curtailed from being able to process their payments because they have to travel to a sub-county headquarters to get payments approved. I believe those are some of the issues that came out of the Ministry of Health and our county governments must work on to ensure that all health facilities from Level 1 to Level 5 are integrated into the IFMIS system. This will ensure that even the district accountants, who will be mandatory signatories, can do all the approvals online without necessarily having to engage at the facility level. Two, is to speak to our governors, county chief officers and the County Executive Committee (CEC) members in charge of health. As they designate the Authority to Incur Expenditure (AIE) holders, they will designate at all the facilities, from Level 1 to Level 5, The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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