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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Aden Duale",
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    "content": "I agree with you that we must empower our pharmaceutical manufacturing plants. This House has an obligation when dealing with the Finance Bill to increase duty on pharmaceutical products that come from outside. That way, we will protect local pharmaceutical companies. Give incentives for them to produce! From where I sit, I want to make sure that my chain is functioning—that the facility is right, the doctor is available, and drugs, mainly from KEMSA, are available. The days you could steal drugs from KEMSA and put them in a private hospital are gone. We followed up primary healthcare and Level 2 to Level 4 hospitals. During the defunct NHIF times, they only asked the facility you wanted to use in your locality. Now, you can be from Nyeri and fall sick in Garissa or Turkana. You will just go to the nearest primary healthcare facility because we have your data. We follow the patient and pay after the patient is treated, given drugs, and discharged. This system will make sure that even those who are contributing get value for their money. This will ensure there is pooling of resources from the lowest person who cannot pay to the highest who is able, that is, from the mama mboga paying Ksh300, the other person paying Ksh500, the one paying Ksh800, to the Members of Parliament who are paying more. When we pool these resources together, we cover the 80 per cent of citizens in our country that the NHIF did not cover. In my opinion that was a very colonial, private, elite salaried club. Members of Parliament and other leaders had many Harambees . So, we want to make sure that there is healthcare. Finally, if we sort out healthcare and education of our country, Kenya will move from a developing country to a developed one. The main indicator of prosperity of a nation is found in the health of its people. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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