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    "id": 293331,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Monda",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Robert Onsare Monda",
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    "content": "I thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. As I continue, I will ask hon. Members to allow me to go through the report and if there are any issues that they want to raise, then they will come in at that point. As I have indicated, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the cover was for four aspects, including in-patient and out-patient services; group life cover and last expense for the civil servants who were to be covered. The agreement was on a premium of Kshs4.32 billion per annum. The premium payable for the six months was Kshs2.1 billion; that is between January, 2012 to 30th June, 2012. The NHIF was supposed to roll out the outpatient programme commencing 1st of January, 2012. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the House will recall that at the dawn or the beginning of the year, the local dailies carried headlines on the new year gift for civil servants. It was later to be established that the gift was not without problems. I will later on enumerate some of those problems which were discussed in the Committee. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it needs to be clear that the out-patient scheme or comprehensive healthcare for civil servants and disciplined forces was a matter agitated upon by civil servants themselves. They wanted a comprehensive healthcare to be provided by the Government. This is what led the Cabinet to approve the rolling out of this scheme. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to state from the outset that the Committee does not have a problem or did not have a problem with the scheme or with the health provision to civil servants. The matters before the Committee were that the scheme caters for principal members, one spouse and three dependent children below 18 years of age and up to 25 years so long as there is proof that these children are in formal education. In summary, the scheme covers in-patient and out-patient costs; it also provides a group life cover and last expense. The Committee was informed that the NHIF was to identity appropriate service providers as per the contract. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is the process of rolling out the scheme, identification and contracting of the private and public service providers that the Committee sought to inquire into. We noted that there were objections from the intended beneficiaries. Amongst the concerns raised in the complaints, and this is what we were following in our inquiry, include:-"
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