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    "id": 1479922,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Endebess, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Robert Pukose",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to thank Hon. (Dr) Oundo for being magnanimous enough to accept that we have been able to intervene and his patient will now be going home after the spinal surgery that was done at Kenyatta University, after we talked to the CEO who intervened. We were able to call Dr Dagane who is the Chief Executive Officer, Kenyatta University Teaching and Referral Hospital, and he intervened. Hon. Members, for record purposes, as we speak now, 12,600,833 Kenyans have been transitioned to Social Health Insurance Fund. Out of that number, those who were in NHIF are 9,640,523, and the newly registered are 2,900,323. Those are the current figures. I can confirm that you will find messages coming to your phone without doing anything. You are among those 9,640,523 that have been transitioned from NHIF to Social Health Insurance Fund through the system without doing anything. Initially, the system had about 12 million Kenyans, but about three million people do not exist in the Kenya National Registration Bureau. It is only after cleaning the fingerprints that after keying in your Identification Number that you will not be required to present your fingerprints. The system is created in such a way that with your identification number, it can access your fingerprints within the Kenya National Registration Bureau. I want to assure Kenyans out there and Members in this House that no Kenyan will be denied services. The unfortunate information outside there is that the Ministry is not doing enough. But I know they are trying their best. We want the information to reach to every Kenyan that if you are a paid-up member of NHIF, you will automatically transition and your services will not be interrupted. Hon. (Dr) Oundo is a witness. When we called the CEO Kenyatta University Teaching and Referral Hospital, he personally went to see the patient in Bed 9 in Jude Ward. Many of those within hospitals should not worry about paid-up members who are in NHIF. They have now been transitioned and the Social Health Insurance Fund is doing its best to send messages so that you can get to know that you are up date. They have also created an emergency line which is a toll line that they can respond to any questions and challenges that may arise. We know that those are teething problems, but the Ministry of Health is in a position to make sure that no Kenyan is denied services wherever they go, if they are paid-up members."
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