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"content": "appointment and goes. You can be innovative; we can have the Women's Representative select one person to sit in the selection panel of the board, then have the office of Senator send one person to sit in the selection panel, the governor sends one, and then the chairperson can be the Chairperson of the CPSB, so that we have a process that is fair, distributive and that accommodates all the leaders within the county. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am excited with what is in Clause 3(d), that we need to preserve our cultural heritage. I have tried to look for books that we read when I was in class one, two and three but they are nowhere. I tried to interest my children to get Kisii books to read but they are nowhere. If not for anything else, I support this Bill if it can be a basis of preserving our heritage. Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale, I do not know whether in Kakamega, you have those Luhya books that were used in class one, two or three. They are nowhere. Fundamentally, we can have a collection of those books, so that our kids who want to connect with our culture and heritage can go to our libraries, read these books and sharpen their skills in our ethnic languages. I also hope these laws that we pass can be implemented in a manner that our people benefit. We have had a long debate in this House on the health laws that we passed, but if we were to be sincere, our people are suffering because of these health laws of The Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF) and Social Health Authority (SHA). Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I have cases in my county and I can table. I have that evidence with me, where people go to hospital and they incur a bill of up to Kshs287,000. They are then told SHA or SHIF will only cover Kshs23,000. I mean, it is worse than the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF). We must be sympathetic to our people. We know the people we represent here. We were told that the moment those laws will start being implemented, we will not be called to contribute for people who have been taken to hospitals and they are unable to pay bills. However, as I speak today, I have a text message forwarding a statement from a hospital of a Kenyan who is unable to get value from the SHIF card. They go to hospital and they are told the SHIF card is not acceptable in certain facilities. On faith-based hospitals; in Bomet, you have Tenwek. It is one of the best. I do not think there is any county hospital that can compete with the Tenwek Hospital. Do you know that many patients are being turned away from Tenwek Hospital? The only allocation you have for this SHIF card in a hospital if you land in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is Kshs4,000 and there is no hospital that will charge you Kshs4000 for an ICU bed. It is more; it is about Kshs16,000. We must do something. If it is not working, let us repeal the law and do something that is beneficial to our people. Let us be very careful as we pass this Bill. We need to ensure that we are not putting our people into a trap. If we continue this way, we will be sending a signal to Kenyans that this law was passed to allow the Government to harvest the souls of Kenyans. If Kenyans are being chased from hospitals and the SHIF card is not being accepted in hospitals, then why did we pass the law? Did we pass it so that as many Kenyans as possible can die? I mean, we have to be sincere. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate."
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