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    "id": 1496675,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1496675/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Endebess, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Robert Pukose",
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    "content": "The NHIF had a lot of challenges. In it, we had close to 12 million beneficiaries. Out of that 12 million, when the system was connected to the National Registration Bureau, 9 million Kenyans could be transferred from the NHIF system to the SHA system. That is how people received messages telling them that they had transferred to the SHA and could access the SHIF, to which they contribute 2.75 per cent of their gross salary. The Primary Health Care Fund is fully funded by the Government to the tune of Ksh4 billion. The Emergency, Chronic and Critical Care Fund is funded to about Ksh2 billion. We might see this as a very small amount in relation to many Kenyans, but not everybody is sick. The biggest challenge that we face today is that many people want to register when they become sick. When SHA, together with the Cabinet Secretary for Health, appeared before our Committee, one of the commitments we asked them to make is to release or write a letter to every constituency office so that people can register in advance and not when seeking treatment. That will ensure that when they go to hospital, they are already registered members. Hon. Temporary Speaker, please, add me just one more minute. This is important, Hon. Members, because we have indigents who cannot afford to pay. These are the people who expect the Government to pay for them. Therefore, by registering in constituency offices, the Women Representatives offices, or even the Senators' offices, we can use the means-testing to identify indigents."
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