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    "id": 1558076,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1558076/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Manyatta, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gitonga Mukunji",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. During the NHIF time, I used to spare some NG-CDF resources to pay for NHIF contributions for the most vulnerable members of the public. But this time, it has been very difficult. I sit in the Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee, where we asked teachers why they preferred using a private cover over the NHIF cover that they were using before. They clearly told us that they were given a letter that SHA cannot handle group payments of such a significant group of our people and yet, they are paying SHA directly. Hon. Speaker, regarding that, we also need to realise that for SHA or for any insurance cover to work, equipping our hospitals is very key. In 2023, we launched a very advanced system of cancer diagnosis at the Kenyatta University Teaching, Referral and Research Hospital (KUTRRH), with His Excellency the President, called Cyber-Knife Radiotherapy Equipment. Last week, I was shocked when I got a call from one of my good friends whose husband has cancer, informing me that the equipment has never been operationalised - not because it has a problem, but because they lack a technician to run it. Hon. Speaker, I would like Waziri to clarify on bulk payments of SHA especially to members and groups such as teachers, and also on the benefits and the equipment."
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