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    "id": 1564842,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1564842/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Health",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
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    "content": "So, the choice is the same. So, we are caring for your house girl. However, if Speaker Wetangula’s, Sen. Sifuna’s or my wife, or even the president's wife wishes, they can go to Pumwani Maternity Hospital and join our house girls. Even the Presidents’ wife can go to the Pumwani Hospital with our house girls. That is healthcare. That is why we say that the Social Health Authority (SHA) has brought the element of equity. The choice is yours. You can go to Pumwani Hospital or Aga Khan Hospital. The next question was how it covers as per the Ministry of Health (MoH) guidelines on normal and caesarean deliveries, postnatal and immunization for the newborns. How do we compare this with NHIF? NHIF cover was limited to only antenatal and postnatal care and deliveries. It also attracted co-payment in the event of a complication of a mother and a baby. It covered only normal and caesarean deliveries with the specific limits for private hospitals. It is good to note that that cover did not include immunization for the newborn. Moving on to renal care, SHA renal care includes the management of chronic or acute kidney failure, such as the three sessions of the hemodialysis for deserving patients. Two sessions of this and two others for the pre-neural dialysis. This cover only includes the pre-transplant evaluation dialysis, kidney transplant, post-transplant care with set tariffs for each service. That is what SHA covers. Comparing this with renal care under the NHIF, renal care was limited by sessions. Two sessions covered per week, hence patients requiring three sessions and more were required to co-pay. Dialysis and kidney transplant had also set limits per sessions and a package payment for transplant, From the foregoing, it is clear that SHA’s Renal Care package is found in our website for all Kenyans to see. The benefits of SHA are open, public, they are in our website. Our renal care package is more detailed with specific tariffs and services, and they are tailored to a comprehensive patient care before and after the transplantation. I want to report that Kenyatta University Teaching and Referral Hospital (KUTRH), which we are proud of has done the first two kidney transplants two days ago; a good one where there was no organ harvesting."
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