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    "id": 1341129,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1341129/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr Susan Nakhumicha",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Health",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker and Members. The National Hospital Insurance Fund procures benefits for its members irrespective of their status, gender, sex, race, age, marital status and pregnancy, as per the provision of the Bill of Rights. In this regard, a medical insurance cover and the scope of benefits there in, are available to all members as guided by the policy provisions on the strategic procurement of medical benefits. The current scope of procedures covered under the surgical benefit package includes surgeries related to intersex persons. The healthcare provider is required to give clinical justification of the procedure to be undertaken. The request is taken through a preauthorisation process to verify the clinical indication. This scope of cover has been contracted since July 2022. We have a specialty which is paediatric surgery procedures for urethroplasty for hypospadias and epispadias. It is a complexity major and currently the NHIF is doing reimbursements of Ksh120,000 for those surgeries. Other procedures related to intersex persons that are covered are urological surgery, orchidectomy and excision of the spermatic cord, urological surgery, orchidopexy bilateral and neurological surgery combined abdominal and vaginal operations on the bladder. The other intersex medical interventions like hormone treatment are not comprehensively covered."
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