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    "id": 1343981,
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    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung'wah",
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    "content": "The health agency shall, among other things, develop, operationalise and maintain a comprehensive, integrated management information system that will be established under Part IV of the Bill. This integrated management information system will ensure that we can manage the core digital systems and infrastructure required for seamless sharing and exchange of health information. I promised the Departmental Committee on Health Chairperson that I would not take a long time to move the Bill. I want us to appreciate that we are in a digital economy, a digital world, and digitisation is here with us. Hon. Speaker and Members, you remember that during the campaigns, His Excellency the President committed to leveraging technology to offer more efficient service delivery to Kenyans. This is not just in the financial services sector as we did under the Hustler Fund, and not just through the E-Citizen platform where Kenyans can now access over 5,000 Government services online, but also in our healthcare space. Kenyans will easily access affordable medical care from any part of the country. It will not matter whether you are in the far corners of Kathiani Constituency or the far-flung counties in the North of Kenya, probably in El Wak, where the senior-most medical personnel could be a clinical officer. In some cases, there are areas where dispensaries are managed by senior nursing officers and not clinical officers. Kenyans will not need to worry that they are in far-flung counties and do not have the resources to access expensive healthcare at Nairobi Hospital or the Kenyatta National Hospital, where there are seasoned consultants. They can access healthcare at their local dispensaries, where their health consultant can share information through a seamless and secure digital system with experienced health personnel at referral hospitals. The patient will then get a correct diagnosis and timely treatment of diseases. Kenyans will not have to live with the agony and anguish they have had to bear, especially with diseases like cancer which, if arrested early, would not progress to become agonising to patients and families across the country. With those many remarks, I beg to move. I urge Members to support this Bill because these health Bills are in the best interests of Kenyans. Hon. Junet alluded to that when he seconded the Procedural Motion. The Bills are critical for our nation and people. It is up to us to scrutinise this Bill and others and vote in their favour, not for the Government, but for the people. Our people are suffering from a dysfunctional healthcare system that we can now fix. We have a golden opportunity to do so. I beg to move and request the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Health, the one and only Hon. (Dr) Pukose, to second."
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