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    "id": 22892,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/22892/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang’-Nyong’o",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Medical Services",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 193,
        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
        "slug": "peter-nyongo"
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, let me assure the House that my Ministry has completed a baseline survey of all our facilities in terms of equipment and human resources available. We have done a survey of what we need to make these facilities be world class competitive. We have this document which we shall put into a Sessional Paper and bring it to this House for debate after passing through the Cabinet so that we can know what we have, what we are missing and what we need to get where we want to go. When I mentioned the figure of Kshs80 billion over the next five years, I was responding to this very scientific study of our health facilities that had been carried out over the last three years. Therefore, given all the issues that had been raised, we have a response in terms of information and data in that Sessional Paper. We have facts and figures which will help the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance with ourselves look for the resources. These resources need not come from the Government entirely. We can do it through the public-private partnership, through the social health insurance to which both the employers and employees will contribute and through contributing to health financing by levying what I call the “syntax”, which is taxing things like gambling, tobacco, alcohol and prostitution. All these things should be taxed so that from your sins we can pay for health care. This happens in many countries so that you will sin knowing very well that the harm you caused your body and to the society, will be paid for prior to sinning. That is pay as you sin. This has been done in other countries and I do not know why we cannot employ the same way of raising resources in our nation."
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