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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Farah",
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        "legal_name": "Farah Maalim Mohamed",
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    "content": "Yes, Mr. Speaker, Sir. In supplementing that request, I want the Minister to also address the issue of the agreement that was done at an African Union (AU) Conference by AU Heads of States. They were going to dedicate a minimum of 15 per cent of ordinary revenue from every government to the health sector. Currently, our dedication is only a paltry 6 per cent. If that, indeed, is also going to happen in this budget for us to get close to realizing Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Nos.4, 5 and 6. In addition to that, the Ministry had a system before that all the doctors who served in marginal areas or very difficult areas would only serve for three years before they qualified for specialization scholarships from the Government. The Government has since frozen all scholarships to doctors. The Assistant Minister can clarify that and also give a commitment that that will be reinstated because a nation which is not learning and more so in the health sector, is a nation that is in peril. Finally, why is it that we are unable to execute or operationalise the National Health Insurance Scheme which is universal? Why is the Government having a parallel one which is more like a private one? He is supposed to target the upper scale civil servants, which, essentially, in our opinion, is driven by other considerations including the desire to make some money out of Kenyans. These are the three areas I would like the Assistant Minister to address. In addition to it, I also have a petition which they told me that I must take to the Speaker although it has already been taken."
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