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    "id": 1496724,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Teso South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mary Emaase",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I also want to thank my sister for bringing this Motion so that we can speak about this subject. Hon. Temporary Speaker, SHA was well-intended to ensure that every Kenyan gets access to good healthcare. However, I agree with my colleagues that there are challenges in transition. Just like any other programme or project, there will be those teething problems when it is being implemented. I think that is where we should focus, but there are also successes. I am just from my constituency. The whole of last week, I was not in Parliament. I was engaged in public participation. One of the issues I was sensitising my people about was on SHA and they said they did not know it. The Chairman told us that we need to sensitise and educate Kenyans so that they know what SHA is, the premiums, how to pay and how they can benefit. That information is lacking. And while we were doing public participation, one of my constituents, when returning back home, broke his hand and we rushed him to one of the private hospitals in town, and we were told we needed to deposit Ksh100,000 cash money, which we did not have. I demanded that the patient be transferred to Bungoma, where we looked for a hospital. We were being asked to pay Ksh70,000, which we did not have. Before we went to Bungoma, I made sure the patient was registered with SHA. So, we managed to get a hospital in Bungoma that accepted to admit the patient from Teso South in Busia County, and he was treated. I only paid Ksh25,000. As I am talking to you, he was discharged yesterday. So, the problem is lack of information."
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