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    "speaker_name": "Ndhiwa, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Martin Owino",
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    "content": "the cost of treating diseases becomes much higher. For example, if a facility lacks a diagnostic system, you may treat Typhoid for Malaria. Before you know it, the progression is too high and the disease has advanced. So, you will use a lot of money. That is why sending money directly to these facilities will ensure that there are drugs and all those essential requirements that they should have. The other point is that accountability which we are talking about from the national Government to the counties is much better at the community levels with those committees I have talked about. They budget. These budgets reflect what is going on and they approve them. That is what I will go for as an accountability system. Can you imagine when delivery reimbursement is given to the counties but then it does not reach to the facilities there? When women go to deliver, there is nothing. It is as if all the money is retained somewhere, yet people are suffering at the ground level. Hon. Temporary Speaker, we have been talking about the Abuja Declaration. This is financing healthcare at a tune of, at least, 15 per cent. Hon. Baya has said that we are 6 per cent right now. Nobody knows whether we are there. If we have an accounting system for money given to these facilities directly, we may know how much is budgeted for the healthcare system in this country. We do not know how that works right now. This is a good Bill. It will help us do that. The only problem is Clause 6 of the Bill. I wish the Chairman was in the House. However, Dr Nyikal is here. Clause 6 of the Bill talks about the equitable share. We will have to do something in this one in the Committee of the whole House. We are not sure how counties will remit that money to the facilities because the other one is direct. This one will be a problem because it has to be held in the Consolidated Fund account and given to them which they do not do normally."
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