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    "speaker_name": "The Cabinet Secretary for Health",
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    "content": "(Hon. (Dr.) Deborah Barasa): Thank you once again, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, and the hon. Member. Certainly, drug availability is critical for us. One of the key challenges that we have faced, as a Ministry, is ensuring that the drugs reach the last mile and we have accessibility to essential medicines. Under the Universal Health Coverage (UHC,) that is the Taifa Care, we are working tirelessly to ensure that we have recapitalisation of medicine in KEMSA. In addition, that they are reaching the last mile, that is to the facilities, up to level 2, 3 and 4 for accessibility by patients. What we have talked about and we are ensuring that we implement is that, after the counties have requested for the medicine, SHA will pay directly for medicine before the money is released to counties. Apart from ensuring that they are paying the claims, they will ensure that medicine is also withdrawn from that money before the money is released to the county. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is an area that we are looking into, together with SHA, to ensure that we are paying up for the medicine before the rest of the money is released. We want to ensure that KEMSA is routinely recapitalised, it has resources and essential medicines to be able to supply at the county level. I do not know if I have made sense."
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