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    "id": 1368120,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nakhumicha",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Health",
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        "legal_name": "Reginalda Nakhumicha Wanyonyi",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank the Senate for inviting me to appear in Plenary and respond to questions and for your indulgence. I am supposed to have appeared two weeks ago. However, I requested to be given time to prepare for the launch of the Universal Health Coverage, which we did during Mashujaa day. Secondly, I would like to thank this esteemed House for the immense support you gave the Ministry in passing the four Bills on Universal Health Coverage that are going to change how we deliver healthcare in this country. For the first time as a country, we will focus on ensuring that Kenyans live healthy vis-à-vis the previous times when we were waiting to repair broken health systems. Having said that, I will refer to the question regarding PwDs and how they can access health services. Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) form a significant part of the world's population, yet as one of the largest groups, their rights are often the least advocated for. The Ministry in collaboration with relevant stakeholders is working tirelessly to advocate for PwDs by developing and streamlining disability inclusive policies and enhancing the ease of accessibility to facilities and services in the health sector. The Ministry developed the Kenya Health Sector Strategic Plan 2018-2023 that prioritises health systems strengthening to realise Universal Health Coverage and has further developed the rehabilitative services and assistive technology strategy of 2022 and 2026 to guide targeted investments to promote access for PWDs. Disability mainstreaming mechanisms within the health systems are ongoing in health facilities to enhance the unhindered safe movements of PwDs and access to reproductive health services. The Ministry has emphasized all health facilities including Level 4, 5 and 6 hospitals to ensure the integration of disability-friendly mechanisms to enable the inclusivity of all Kenyans. In the recently concluded facility assessment preliminary report, the Ministry evaluated whether the health facilities had disability-friendly structures that has ramps, lifts, disability friendly washrooms, disability friendly maternity beds and wheelchairs, amongst other items. Out of the 12,483 facilities included in the analysis, 47 per cent had at least one disability-friendly infrastructure, 82 per cent had a ramp, 54 per cent had wheelchairs, 15 per cent had disability-friendly washrooms and only seven per cent had disability-friendly maternity beds. Further analysis reveals that 80 per cent and 42 per cent of Level 6 and 5 facilities had disability-friendly maternity beds, while only 22 per cent and 8 per cent of Level 4 and 3 facilities had disability-friendly maternity beds."
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