Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 1368187,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1368187/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 95,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nakhumicha",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Health",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 520,
        "legal_name": "Reginalda Nakhumicha Wanyonyi",
        "slug": "reginalda-nakhumicha-wanyonyi"
    },
    "content": "However, we have Community Health Assistants who then supervise them to ensure that they are carrying out their duty. The Community Health Assistants (CHAs) have contracts with the county governments. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we launched 100,000 Community Health Promoters (CHP) on the 20th October, 2023. Three weeks before the launch, His Excellency the President had flagged off equally 100,000 kits. That means that each of the CHP has a kit that is fully equipped with the items that we have put in there to address the issues within the community. Since the launch, we have received feedback from the counties that not all CHP were covered within the 100,000. We have put together an additional 20,000 CHP to cover the counties. We are going to put them through training and after that, they shall be given the kits to carry out the work that we have asked them to do. To respond to the question on Autism, it is a developmental disorder that affects children. Management involves many interventions, especially medications and behavioural therapy that is being worked on. However, in the new Act that we now have under the Social Health Insurance Act, we are developing a benefits package. Our plan in the benefits package is that it should include everyone in all services that are required. There are no exclusions or limits within that. It is our hope that as we finalize with regulations and go into implementation, no one is going to be left behind, whether with autism or any form of disability. We should take care of all of them under the essential benefits package that we have developed. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I submit."
}