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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ms. Susan Nakhumicha",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Health",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. Level 2 dispensaries are manned by nurses. We have over 9,000 dispensaries in the country. They are functional. Level 3 facilities are manned by nurses and clinical officers. Most of them are functional. I acknowledged that we, indeed, have a problem at Level 4, Level 5 and Level 6 facilities. However, I said that emergency services are being offered. I just gave an experience of my walk-through the KNH last week. What has the Ministry done in rationalising? The Ministry met with the National Treasury on two occasions after we received guidelines from the SRC. That is how we got Ksh2.3 billion to post the current interns. We have also been getting the numbers that are in the pipeline in training institutions so that we can plan ahead through the budgeting process to ensure that they are taken care of. The other Question was what the Ministry is doing to ensure that this does not recur. I reiterate that, through the long-term position I raised earlier, we believe that the Ministry will be able to resolve this and ensure it does not recur. However, I thank Members of this House. The Ministry brought four Bills to this House and they were processed. One of the outcomes of those four Bills is the Social Health Insurance Act. As we sit here today, less than 20 per cent of Kenyans have some form of medical insurance. What we intend to achieve with the Social Health Insurance Act is drive those numbers up and ensure that as many Kenyans as possible are on insurance. Our target is to get at least 80 per cent of Kenyans on cover. Once the resources are raised through the Social Health Insurance Act, we believe that we will take care of commodities, equipment, and the most important pillar of universal health coverage. It is the health human resource. Hon. Kajwang’ asked about the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). We cannot live in denial. We have two levels of government: the national and county governments. A CBA is a document that is signed between an employer and an employee. The CBA progress that has been made by the national Government is for its employees. I can authoritatively say that, as the national Government, we have managed to implement some of the things that are being asked for in the CBA. The relationship between the employer, the county government, and doctors should be managed as such. That is between the county governments and the employees. The matter on the return-to-work formula went to court. The Hon. Judge ordered that the doctors should suspend their strike and give negotiation a chance. They ordered that discussions should continue under the whole-of-the-nation approach. I believe a return-to-work The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"
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