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    "id": 1401209,
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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": "I want to confirm that according to the SHIF, reproductive health is one of the benefits package. In fact, it is an expanded package from what was there under LindaMama . Let us not stick on Linda Mama . Let us be concerned about what is it that they were getting then and what they will get in the new one. I confirm that the benefits are expanded. On the question raised by Sen. Hamida Kibwana regarding whether we know the situation, indeed, we know the situation. On a daily basis, we track how the situation looks like. We have developed a tool that is being filled by county governments. We have also developed another tool that is being filled by national referral hospitals, which we have 100 per cent control over. For the weeks that the strike has progressed, I want to confirm that in our teaching and referral hospitals, Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) has recorded the highest increase in the number of medical officers who have gone back to work based on the administrative measures we have put in place. We take responsibility that we have an issue at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) because the registrars have not gone back to work. Registrars are people who are doing their postgraduate training. We have Government-sponsored and privately-sponsored. Those are the people we are talking to, so that they get back to work and carry on with what they have been doing. As a Ministry, we understand the gravity of this matter. That is why on a daily basis, for the past three days, we have been having meetings until midnight to find a solution to this issue. As I have said, the solution will not just come from the Ministry of Health. It will be based on the whole-of-the-nation approach and the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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