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    "id": 1344119,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
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    "content": "coverage and ensure that all Kenyans have access to affordable, comprehensive and quality health services. As we do all these things, it is very important to end corruption in hospitals so that our citizens can get quality health care services. Corruption has even led to the dismissal of a managing director at the NHIF. Corruption has riddled NHIF for many years now. How do we ensure that we reform the NHIF? We cannot just pass a law here and say we have reformed the NHIF. We need to go into that organisation and dismantle whatever is there and assemble a new organisation that will take care of the health of Kenyans. I want to inform the House that there has been a lot of lobbying from people who work for the NHIF. They have a problem with the clauses at the end of the Bill on transition provisions concerning the NHIF staff. They have even lobbied me and said: “We want to be automatically absorbed”. This brings forth the question: How do you reform an organisation by taking everything out and changing the name? By doing that, can you say that you have reformed? The Human Resource Department at NHIF needs to rethink. Have they been providing quality services to Kenyans? Have they been truthful to the call to ensure that Kenyans have a universal health care system that works? This is the time to separate the chaff from the maize and say that the bad eggs within NHIF cannot join the new organisation. I support that. I also want to see fairness in ensuring that Kenyans that have done well continue to do well; those that have not done very well should pave way for others so that we have an organisation that will ensure universal healthcare is achieved. Hon. Deputy Speaker, two things matter to me: Good education and health for our children. A healthy nation is a wealthy nation. This will ensure that this country moves forward. In developed countries like the United States of America, healthcare is always one of the key agenda during an election period. Every presidential candidate will give his own idea of how he or she will provide good healthcare. Kenya Kwanza used the idea of a good healthcare system to ensure that we win the votes. The people that Hon. Junet described as “a certain animal” never gave a good and credible proposal on healthcare, but Kenya Kwanza did. This is the time to implement what we campaigned on. We will do this within our time. We will do it not just in time, but in this particular Session of Parliament. We must bring these refreshing and revolutionary ideas into the healthcare system of this country."
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