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    "id": 1557892,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1557892/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Prof) Guyo Jaldesa",
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    "content": "(Moyale, UPIA)]: Thank you Hon. Speaker. I want to inform the Cabinet Secretary that as long as county governments medical workers are on strike, Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) and other referral hospitals will be overcrowded with patients who are not supposed to be there. The main assurance we had about SHA is that patients’ medical bills would not be a bother or burden to the society and Members of Parliament. Unfortunately, most of the diseases that give people high medical bills are critical, chronic or emergency diseases which fall under ECCF Fund. Many of our patients have huge bills running into millions of monies. Yet, SHA can only pay a maximum of Ksh300,000. What steps are you taking to ensure that those who have lost their relatives in hospital or have been discharged cannot be detained waiting for that money to be paid? This is a major problem. We are not talking about Levels 1, 2 or 3 health facilities. The major problem people have in this country is with public health facilities, particularly Level 5 and Level 6 hospitals. They accrue huge bills because they are indigents as Mhe. Wanjiku has said. When their relatives want to bury their dead, they cannot be allowed access to their bodies until they pay. Yet, those people are signed up as SHA members."
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