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    "id": 1451071,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Endebess, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Robert Pukose",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Speaker, we also have other issues like the Managed Equipment Service (MES) that is within counties. It provides for services like the CT scans; Sterile Services Department (SSD), for operations in theatre; theatre equipment, which is operated in 97 hospitals; radiotherapy; radiography; ultrasound and other services. These services have been continuously provided, even without proper extension being done by the Ministry together with suppliers. There are also challenges from counties. County Governors have not committed themselves to take over these services because they are constrained financially. There is also the rollout of the universal healthcare, through the primary healthcare, which has been allocated Ksh2 billion. The Emergency and Chronic Illness Fund has been allocated Ksh2 billion. The Primary Healthcare Fund has been allocated Ksh4 billion. There is also the SHIF which is supposed to be rolled out. All these are challenges that cannot be met because of rationalisation of the Budget. But all in all, with rationalisation of the Budget, we have made sure that critical services in the Ministry are not severely affected. Therefore, we have allocated money to institutions like the Kenya BioVax Institute, which is in the process of vaccine manufacturing. As we are aware, donors are in the process of withdrawing from Kenya. Therefore, as a country, we need to manufacture vaccines to prepare for any outbreak of future diseases or epidemics. Hon. Temporary Speaker, with those few remarks, I support."
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