Entry Instance

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

{
    "id": 1403019,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1403019/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 287,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Esther Passaris (",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": "Nairobi County, ODM): Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Cabinet Secretary, on H. pylori, I want you to understand that when a woman goes to a hospital or a facility and she is having severe motion, stomach cramps, and pain and she needs to conduct tests, even if she has NHIF, she is going to be asked for some money to conduct that test. If she does not have the money to conduct the test, she goes home with untreated H. pylori . I have just checked with Mama Lucy Hospital, and the drug is actually out of stock. If H. pylori is untreated and the Government does not take it seriously in terms of making sure that we do random testing of society and of the communities to see where it is prevalent and what treatments are appropriate, just the way we treat any other ailment, we are going to deal with a lot of ulcers and stomach cancers. There could be a correlation between the increase in cancers of the colon because of untreated H. pylori. I was trying to get a global picture on whether the Ministry of Health sees H. pylori and the resultant untreated illnesses as an issue, and if there are plans to go to the public and test. About three months ago, five of my friends and I all had H. pylori at the same time. So, I am beginning to think that it is prevalent and we need to make an assessment of what is going on in the grassroots. When it comes to NHIF and fistula, fistula for me is, even though it is not life- threatening, actually reduces the dignity of the lives of the women who suffer from it. I know that Kenyatta National Hospital offers the fistula surgeries with NHIF. Majority of the women who suffer from fistula do not have NHIF and so, they are out there suffering. When it comes to making sure that everybody is covered by SHIF going forward, I want to suggest an innovative financing. Right now, you have not been able to get every Kenyan to sign up for NHIF, even at Ksh500 per household per month. So, when we move to SHIF, even if you are going to lower it and say it is X amount, I agree with Hon. Mathenge that getting them to pay it lumpsum at the beginning would not work. I would like to take you to innovative financing through transactional tax. Maybe, it would be easier for us to consider that because that was used by certain countries to raise money for vaccines by putting a tax on business class tickets and economy tickets. That is why we get vaccines at a low price. So, if you put an innovative tax of X percent…"
}