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    "id": 1558085,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1558085/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nairobi City County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Esther Passaris",
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    "content": " I have a burning one. Thank you, Hon. Speaker. As we sit here, I want to bring it to the attention of the Cabinet Secretary that Kenyatta University Teaching, Referral and Research Hospital (KUTRRH) had stalled for eight years. I was in the Departmental Committee on Health in the last Parliament and I was instrumental in making sure it was funded and opened after stalling. Right now, there is a young man at KUTRRH who had an accident. He was in a car going somewhere but woke up at KUTRRH. The family has been given a bill of Ksh400,000, and they have paid Ksh100,000 because the hospital says SHA only covers food and bed. This happens to be a deaf patient. We said that SHA is better than NHIF in the sense that it does not have a waiting period unlike NHIF where one had to wait for three months. Now that we do not have a waiting period, assuming that, that young deaf man did not have SHA when he was admitted in hospital, is it the duty of the hospital to ensure that they register him at that particular point in time so that he can enjoy the benefit of being in the hospital? This was an accident but now the family is being forced to pay Ksh400,000 since SHA is only covering bed and food, whereas, this is a public hospital that should be offering services for free to our members. You also talked about..."
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