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    "id": 1496667,
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    "speaker_name": "Rangwe, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Lilian Gogo",
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    "content": " Thank you very much. It is usually the desire of every Government to provide healthcare to its citizenry. As it were, there was need to change from the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) that was old and of old generation to what was presumed to be a better quality healthcare system, the SHIF, which is managed by the SHA. First, very many aspects have been brought and the citizens are confused. They do not know whether it is NIF, SHI or SHA. They do not know whether it is SHU. People need to be apprised that it is not SHISHA. People need to be apprised on this matter because it affects their health. Some Ksh32,000 and more were deducted from my salary of last month. This caused delays but it eventually went. I am told that those who are not able can pay as low as Ksh500 and still get healthcare. The challenge I have, and which is making me raise this matter, is whether these monies go to the ground. Do they go to intended persons? How much has this programme allocated to purchasing equipment? How much has this programme put aside for training of healthcare workers? We have seen our highly trained doctors and nurses being encouraged to look for jobs abroad. As much as money is taken from my salary, my concern is whether this money reaches a poor pregnant woman who is going to deliver at the Rangwe Sub-County Hospital. My view is that there should have been a smooth six months’ transition period. People should have been sensitised. Now, because of issues of trust, the citizens are refusing even to register to the SHIF. They have not been explained to why they need to pay yet the money is delayed. If you go to hospital, you are told that you have not been transferred to SHIF yet I get messages on my phone that I have been successfully transferred. Now, am I successfully transferred to SHIF because I am a Member of Parliament or do the other ordinary citizens get the same messages? If we are able to do that, why not do it for everybody? Why not do it so that people are not turned away when they go to our hospitals? Women and caregivers suffer the most. More often than not, caregivers are women who have to take care of children, the vulnerable, people with disabilities, and the elderly yet when they go to hospital, they are turned away. If we do not look at this matter critically, sit as a community and lawmakers, and the Executive does not rethink policies and the gaps that it creates and how they can be covered, then it is the grass that will suffer. The grass is the mother of Akinyi and Adhiambo. Hon. Temporary Speaker, we are taking Kenyans for granted. I also think we are creating unnecessary positions to benefit the elite in our community. If the Social Health Authority was rolled out on 1st October and is almost advancing into November, what is it doing to make sure that as many citizens as possible are registered? I went to a registration camp in one of the counties where people were being registered by clerks and I noted that there were two questions that had to be filled: do you live in a rental house or do you own a house? That is the question you are asked. The most obvious thing is to say that you pay rent if you"
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