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    "speaker_name": "The Cabinet Secretary for Health",
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    "content": "(Hon. (Dr.) Deborah Barasa): Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will start with the blood pressure question. With regard to hypertension and other non-communicable diseases in Kenya, we have more than 106 Community Health Promoters (CHPs) who have been onboarded on the Electronic Community Health Information System (ECHIS) platform. They have been able to register more than eight million Kenyans out of the 12.5 million households. They have been able to revisit 7.3 million households. They have been able to screen patients for diabetes and hypertension in this area. So, we have been able to screen Kenyans, 340 of them who have been referred for diabetes, and 730,000 who had hypertension. So, the CHPs are indeed a critical platform that we are utilising within the community to educate on preventive and promotive health care, and also to identify and refer these cases. Additionally, even for Level 2, we have human resources like the nurses there who can identify the patients who have hypertension and refer them to higher levels of care. So, we continue with training and capacity building, mentorship and supportive supervision for our CHPs and our healthcare workers to ensure that they are identified. Indeed, they have been a critical pillar and a game changer in regards to identifying these conditions that were once affecting our people. Again, just to emphasize, we acknowledge the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) debt and we are again looking at the payment plan. This is the main concern with the private and the faith-based organisations. So, what we have requested is that they submit all pending claims for verification and then payment will follow suit. Maybe even to give you a background, there was a press release yesterday by the SHA team and what you can see, is there are a lot of efforts going towards payment of The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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