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    "id": 1520948,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1520948/?format=api",
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    "speaker_name": "The Cabinet Secretary for Health",
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    "content": "have to pay and how much NHIF was covering. That way, we will have evidence based and data driven analysis to show you that indeed SHA is working. When we talk about the issue of Arianna, yes, the Ministry acknowledges and indeed, we send our condolences to the family. We acknowledge that was a challenge seeing the Pearson syndrome is a very rare disease and only ten people in the entire world have this disease. Therefore, as a Ministry, we are looking into ways of ensuring that we review this condition, the diagnosis, treatment, management and so on. When it comes to management of the baby, you will notice that NHIF cover previously was Kshs4,600 for ICU but I can assure you that the Ministry has really been advocating and pushing to ensure that our Emergency Chronic Critical Illness Fund (ECCIF) is improved. We are happy to report that after reviewing, it has been increased to Kshs28,000, and that will gradually improve. We have the benefits package advisory team, which will be reviewing the benefit package and seeing gradually how we can improve to ensure that Kenyans are accessing services. As you are well aware, at the beginning of UHC, we looked into the burden of the disease in Kenya and we also looked at what was causing death and what was causing catastrophic expenditure. We also reviewed what NHIF was offering and you can see the benefit is actually better or the same as NHIF. Nothing was lower than what NHIF was offering. However, moving forward, based on the resources at hand, we hope to gradually improve the benefit package for the betterment of health services for all Kenyans."
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