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    "id": 1344014,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1344014/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Eldas, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Adan Keynan",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": "digitisation of health records, promotion of health tourism, provision for telemedicine and provision of health information systems. More importantly, we come from very remote villages like where I came from. The issue of monitoring patients remotely is critical. I remember in the second constituency I represent we got our first medical doctors four years ago. You can imagine the challenges those people have been going through. With this Bill, some of those challenges can be reduced. This will also reduce administrative costs. Data protection and privacy will also be very important. Inter-operability is also taken care of. You can have one hospital in the furthest part of the world having an exchange programme with another hospital. Health innovation is also critical. There are certain things we need to look at. Some countries like Germany and the United Kingdom (UK), succeeded in providing social healthcare mechanisms. In Africa, our neighbour, Rwanda, a small country, has had a very successful social healthcare mechanism. Others are countries like India, Indonesia and Ghana in West Africa. These things are critical. However, there are certain things, like the definition of a household, over which we must also sound an alarm. Where I come from or where you come from, a household is completely different from one in Europe. Therefore, we will be amending the Bill to provide for a household as an African household, not a Western one. For example, if you talk of Adan Keynan’s household, I can assure you that you will speak of tens of people. A household in Western Europe means a man, a wife and a child. You can imagine if you define the household of Hon. (Dr) Moses Wetang’ula. It is a chain. We will be looking at these things to bring amendments and real life. Equally, we are also doing over-legislation. Some things will be done administratively. The fact that we need to modernise and inject a bit of modernism and efficiency into our healthcare system does not mean we over-legislate everything. Some require administrative pronouncements. I have looked at this Bill. We want to cure everything. We are defining qualifications for the chair and the top-quality assurance officer. These things require administrative efficiencies rather than legislation. We also need to protect the officers who are in NHIF now. It is like we are assuming that we are starting from zero. Some officers have diligently served the NHIF. Therefore, their right to a decent job must also be protected in this Bill. I am aware this is a country of regions, tribes and colleagues. That is the foundation of the nation called the Republic of Kenya. We must be careful because, right now, the information out there is that part of the provisions of this Bill is employment opportunities and exit to those who are there. If that is the agenda, I assure you it will not succeed. If the agenda is to modernise, we will be there to support this Bill."
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