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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will skip the tables and the figures because I have just received them. Since you have said there will be engagements going into the future, perhaps we can transact that business elsewhere. I will go straight to my two supplementary questions. Madam Cabinet Secretary, my appreciation of SHA and SHIF as a Kenyan and not as a Senator is that your Ministry is trying to climb a tree from the top. That is my honest response to SHA and SHIF. Why? This is because the Universal Health Care (UHC), which is not a Kenyan programme, but a global universal concept, is supposed to facilitate access to affordable, promotive, preventive, curative, rehabilitative and palliative care to patients when they need it. For that to happen, two things are important: The first one is infrastructure development in terms of physical facilities and equipment. The second one is personnel; doctors, nurses, clinicians and support staff. That will form the basis of rolling out the UHC. Madam Cabinet Secretary, I want you to tell this country, of those two important facets of the success of UHC, what did the Government do before rolling out the SHA to ensure that we have enough facilities, infrastructure and sufficient personnel to deal with the demands that come with the UHC? My second supplementary question is a live matter. Kenyans, you and I are aware that private and faith-based health facilities are withdrawing from the SHA for reasons of release of funds to the facilities. Yesterday, I saw the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) make a very irresponsible statement. He said that they are only 300 facilities so, even if they disappear, nothing will change. Madam Cabinet Secretary, Kenyans, you and I know that those 300 facilities could be the only facilities available to Kenyans, especially in far to reach areas. Therefore, the withdrawal of services by those facilities is a death sentence to millions of Kenyans. I had expected a rejoinder from you immediately to say that you care, if you do, on that statement coming from your CEO. What are you doing to win the confidence of the faith-based and private health facilities, to make sure they come back on board and continue to offer services to Kenyans, especially to reach far areas? I thank you."
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