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    "id": 1532533,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) James Nyikal",
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    "content": "and other needs and sells to the counties. Every year, we would just be giving KEMSA money to buy drugs and distribute them because the principle that \"counties buy\" must be adhered to. We only do that if the debts are paid. We need to look at that, as it is extremely important. Hon. Temporary Speaker, it has also addressed the issue of Social Health Authority (SHA). Many people say it is not working, while a few say it is. Do you know that both of them are right because when we register people in SHA right now, it is different from when we registered them in the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF)? At that time, only people who had paid the premium were registered; therefore, they were all entitled to care. They got the care as much as it was not done properly. However, when we register people into SHA now, there are two registrations. There is a general registration that everybody gets, and that is because we have three funds in SHA: Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF), which is similar to NHIF; Primary Health Care Fund (PHCF); and Critical and Emergency Care Fund (CECF), both of which are supposed to come from the Ex-Chequer. Therefore, registering everybody and telling them they are entitled to care is also reasonable. However, the Primary Healthcare Fund, for example, only provides care in Level 2 and 3 Hospitals. I do not think this information is out there to the public. That is why we have only 20 million people registered in the Social Health Authority (SHA), and they are all entitled to services at Level 2 and 3 Hospitals because it would be paid by the Government. However, only four million people have paid the premium, which is for the Social Health Insurance Fund. So, when one of the four million people gets the SHA services, they will say it works. The other ones..."
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