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    "id": 1371452,
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    "speaker_name": "His Excellency the President",
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        "legal_name": "Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta",
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    "content": "That is what he told me. So, apart from referring others, he also had to go to hospital. Mr. Obembi Ogutu, of Homa Bay County, told me that the programme now makes primary healthcare a paperless engagement. He said that the queues in hospitals were now reducing. Through the Facility Improvement Financing Act 2023, we have established a framework that confers financial autonomy to health facilities, enabling them to retain funds generated with a mandate to improve facilities’ capacity and to provide healthcare services within that locality. In addition, the Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (KEMSA), as part of many radical reforms, will now deploy ICT to manage supply chains of essential health products and commodities. As a result of these small interventions, KEMSA improved its stocking rate from 40 per cent to 60 per cent in the last five months. We are now targeting 80 per cent by March next year. It is clear that we cannot hope anymore to deliver services to Kenyans across the country with any measure of efficiency, integrity, transparency and accountability without ICT. From education, health, agriculture and financial inclusion, digital technologies reign supreme in transforming service delivery, governance improvements and catalysing efficiency throughout the economy. We have commenced the rollout of 100,000 km of the last-mile fibre-optic connectivity. This will ensure there is reliable and high-speed internet in Kenya. We have done this along with 25,000 free Wi-Fi hotspots in all market centres. I received the statistics, and by the end of this year, the first 2,500 will be rolled-out and another 1,450 ICT hubs in every ward. I thank the Members of this House for changing the NG-CDF Act. You can also use those resources in the ICT space. This will enable millions of young people in your constituencies and wards access to internet and technology for digital jobs, e- commerce and the possibility of working on remote jobs. I have engaged the Chairperson and Committee of this House in that space. We have agreed on the model of how the ICT hub will look like. I am truly grateful that Parliament came through and considered changing the law so that we can work on this together. We have expanded digital provision of public services to encompass 13,000 services to date, and it is our commitment to ensure full digitisation by the end of next month. Our decision to enhance efficiency and integrity in the provision of Government services has gone a long way to improve revenue collection. Working with the private sector, we launched the local assembly of affordable smartphones last week in Athi River. Digitisation and automation enhance service delivery and citizen satisfaction, and also assures greater accuracy, transparency, accountability and reduces opportunities for corruption in the course of transacting with Government ministries, departments and agencies."
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