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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Health",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, this is my 15th day at the Ministry of Health. I want to assure Hon. Millie Odhiambo that her Bill with her good ideas along with the Ministry’s Bill have been combined. It is now at the Attorney General’s Office. You know me - I am going to fast-track it. When it comes to the Committee of the whole House, if there is anything we have left, you will propose it. The Reproductive Health Bill is very important and I will push it. I want to confirm to Hon. Jaldesa, my good friend from the North, that no Kenyan will be or should be detained as long as they have registered with SHA, effective 1st April this year. A further budgetary allocation has been provided under what you did in this House for Emergency, Chronic and Critical Illness Fund (ECCF), which enabled facilities to be reimbursed. For example, we have increased critical cancer reimbursement to Ksh550,000 and Intensive Care Unit (ICU) to Ksh28,000 per day. I want to give an example because there was also another case of ICU. If you have a patient in the hospital and your bill is Ksh1.1 million, and SHA pays Ksh500,000, is that a progressive healthcare system? That was not there during the defunct NHIF. I believe I have answered the question on teenage mothers. Hon. Speaker, on the question of strikes by Prof. Jaldesa, I want to assure him that the success of the Universal Health Coverage or Taifa Care depends on how we handle the human resource aspect of our health system. That is why I met with the Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists Dentists Union (KMPDU) leadership. It is also why I am sorting out the issue of internship in consultation with the county governments, the Presidency, National Treasury, Departmental Committee on Health and the Universal Health Coverage workers. I also had a meeting with the Council of Governors (CoG) and in my opinion, Kenyans must talk to each The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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