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    "id": 1521915,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Allow me to make brief comments on Sen. Hamida's and Sen. Mundigi's Statements regarding the challenges facing the rollout of the new Social Health Insurance Fund. Despite the fact that the Cabinet Secretary for Health was here in the morning, questions continue to abound. While she was here, after I had made my comments - you know the rules of this House do not allow us to speak twice on the same issue - my phone was inundated by messages from UHC workers. As you know, after the Gen-Z movement, my number is now public. It was disseminated to just about everyone in the country. Out of the more than 500 messages that I received, I distilled the three issues that those UHC workers were telling me about. These are matters, and the Committee now has to have an intimate session with the Ministry's leadership and even these UHC workers themselves to reach the bottom of these matters. Number one, these UHC workers believe that the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Deborah, might have misled this House on the question of whether all UHC workers have been put on a permanent and pensionable basis. In fact, the Ministry only confirmed the people working or the UHC workers at the national hospitals, and 8,572 of those UHC workers have been on contract for the last five years. This is a matter that the Committee must get to the bottom of and report to this House. 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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