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    "id": 1532416,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, there is also more allocation to healthcare. Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), Kenyatta University Teaching, Referral and Research Hospital (KUTRRH), Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH), and Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA) are getting additional resources. I do not want to get into the figures. This speaks to the need to ensure that our national referral hospitals are adequately resourced to offer Kenyans services when needed, especially under the Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF). An additional sum of Ksh3 billion has been allocated to the Emergency Chronic and Critical Illness Fund. A sum of Ksh1.5 billion is for stipends for healthcare professional interns. A sum of Ksh600 million is for operationalising primary healthcare networks. This significantly addresses the issues raised during the Members' retreat in Naivasha when the SHA management team appeared before us. We then asked the Departmental Committee on Health to sit down and look into the issues bedevilling the implementation of the Universal Healthcare Program in Kenya. The low level of resourcing of the Primary Healthcare Fund and the Emergency Chronic and Critical Illnesses Fund was identified as part of the issues and challenges. It is important for Kenyans to appreciate that the more members enlist in SHIF and make contributions, the more efficient and effective the scheme will become in catering for the needs of its customers or the needs of patients who walk into hospitals. For instance, the primary healthcare facility is meant to ensure that any Kenyan registered under SHIF or Taifa Care can walk into a Level 1, Level 2, or Level 3 hospital, see a doctor, receive a prescription, get treated, and go home without paying a coin. That is as long as that primary healthcare facility, whether private or public, is registered with SHA."
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