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"speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Robert Pukose",
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"content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, I want to thank the Leader of the Majority Party and second this Bill. Let me begin by thanking the Members of the Departmental Committee on Health that I chair for their dedication in preparing and tabling the Committee Report on the Bill. The Government of Kenya has identified healthcare delivery as one of the core pillars of its Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA). In the Plan, several commitments have been identified towards the delivery of the Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Those interventions include ring-fencing funds for healthcare from facility improvement funds to allocations from the National Treasury in collaboration with county governments. The Bill is aligned with this Plan and the Kenya Vision 2030 which, under the social pillar, envisions a healthy and prosperous nation. This is because the Bill seeks to provide for public health facility improvement financing and its management and administration in the country. The Bill has 29 clauses, and the Committee considered clause by clause together with the comments received from several stakeholders; namely, the State Department for Medical Services in the Ministry of Health, the County Assemblies Forum, the Council of Governors and a group of Civil Society Organisations that are involved in matters health governance and human rights comprising the Kenya Human Rights Commission, Amnesty International Kenya, the People’s Health Movement (PHM), the Kenya AIDS NGOs Consortium (KANCO), the Institute of Public Finance (IPF) and the Scaling Up Nutrition Civil Society Alliance (SUN CSA-Kenya) who submitted a joint memorandum. Hon. Temporary Speaker, prior to its consideration of comments, the Committee, through the Clerk of the National Assembly, placed an advertisement in the print media on Wednesday, 4th October 2023. The Committee also wrote to several institutions requesting for their memoranda on the Bill, including the Ministry of Health, the Office of the Attorney- General and Department of Justice, the National Treasury, the Commission on Revenue Allocation, the Office of the Controller of Budget, the Kenya Law Reform Commission, the National Health Insurance Fund, the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council, the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, the National Gender and Equality Commission, the Commission on Administrative Justice, the Council of Governors, the County Assemblies Forum, the Kenya Medical Association, the Kenya Private Sector Alliance, the Consumers Federation of Kenya, the Rural Private Hospitals Association of Kenya, the Kenya AIDS NGOs Consortium and the Kenya Association of Private Hospitals. The Bill is aligned with the Constitution of Kenya, 2010 on county funds. The Constitution in Article 207(1) exempts money reasonably excluded by an Act of Parliament from being paid into the County Revenue Fund. Article 207(4) of the Constitution further 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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