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    "id": 1521221,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1521221/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Endebess, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Robert Pukose",
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    "content": "We have targeted communication where we develop specific messages for the elderly, poor and vulnerable groups using simplified content and trusted community influencers to drive awareness and registration. We also encourage NG-CDF budgetary allocations. We advocate allocating NG-CDF funds to sponsor SHIF premiums for vulnerable groups. This is where Members come in, ensuring equitable access to healthcare. This is in addition to public-private partnerships where we partner with microfinance institutions, donor agencies like AMPATH and UNHCR, and NGOs to extend healthcare loans to pay premiums. Hon. Speaker, the Committee has also made recommendations. We shall be engaging the Ministry of Health and SHA in a retreat to look at debts owed to the defunct NHIF. Further, we will engage them on more issues. The means testing tool used in the informal sector needs to be reviewed to improve its reliability and accuracy through actual field visits, not online. Quality health assurance officers will verify health services with technical knowledge to detect and eliminate fraud. The SHA has inadequate feasibility capacity to confirm if contracted facilities render the services they claim. We will also look at the benefits package under the Primary Healthcare Fund, which needs to be enhanced. The State Department for Social Protection will leverage data provided by the SHA to avoid subjecting indigents to fresh means testing. Hon. Speaker, the PSC has approved a SHA staff establishment of 815. In recruiting staff, the SHA Board should follow the law per the transition clauses in the SHA Act of 2020 and SHIF Act of 2020. All former NHIF officers not employed under SHA will be deployed within the Public Service Commission or exercise the right to retire under the Act. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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