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    "id": 1518423,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13219,
        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
        "slug": "erick-okongo-mogeni"
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    "content": "One case is Ms. Moraa from Kisii, another one is in Mr. Njuki. As we speak today, our interns have not been paid their arrears of Kshs206,000 for the month of August, September, October, November, December, 2024. How do these young professionals survive? As we speak today, there is a tussle between the Ministry and the county governments whether we should pay our interns Kshs206,000 or Kshs70,000. Surely, if you pay an intern Kshs70,000 then deduct for Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF), Universal Housing Levy, Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) and National Industrial Training Authority (NITA), how will these people survive? They will be left with no choice other than to continue committing suicide. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, health is a devolved function. If the suicide cases we are seeing from our own children cannot move us to do something, even to summon the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Health to appear before us, then what is the role of the Senate of the Republic of Kenya? Also, if you are an intern, seeing patients appearing for treatment in a hospital that lacks facilities to treat them can itself trigger you to commit suicide. We are told that the transition from the defunct National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) to SHIF is 46 per cent where are these 54 per cent of Kenyans getting their health services from? We are being told that a patient will come to a hospital, but cannot log in their SHIF cards, but you are told the system cannot accept. Sometimes when the system accepts you, your relatives who are supposed to be beneficiaries are not in the system. I appeal to us to take opportunity of this statement to convert ourselves to a Committee of the Whole House. Let us there deal with this issue around the frustrations of our interns and the functionality of this thing we call SHIF."
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