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    "id": 298137,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/298137/?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",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me the opportunity to contribute to the debate on The Appropriation Bill. It is unfortunate that my dear friend, Mr. Chanzu is not here. He raised an issue on health in his contribution to this Bill. I wish he was here so that I could enlighten him. This is because he was referring to information that is at least 20 years old and not the current happenings and initiatives at the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF). The main aim of insurance is to have a comprehensive social insurance cover for all Kenyans. This is what we have been doing with my predecessor Mrs. Ngilu when she initiated the carrying out of an actuarial evaluation of NHIF through Alexander Forbes. He gave us a very good report on how NHIF can initiate universal health coverage. We followed that through our strategic management study of NHIF to see whether as an organization it was capable of implementing social health insurance cover. That means both inpatient and outpatient cover. Both reports were very positive and provided a roadmap for initiating a comprehensive social health cover. We carried out successful outpatient pilot programme on the basis of which NHIF was capable of being approached by the Ministry of Public Service to carry out this comprehensive cover for civil servants, the disciplined forces and the police."
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