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    "id": 298260,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/298260/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Monda",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Onsare Monda",
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    "content": "Fourthly, we also dealt with the capacity of the service providers where civil servants were allocated. The Committee realized that some of the service providers did not have capacity to serve the members who were allocated to them. There were also non-existent facilities. The Committee learnt that out of the 377 facilities that had been identified by NHIF to provide service to members, two very key in this scheme were given majority of the members. These two are the Meridian Medical Centre which was allocated 32,000 principal members. The Clinix Healthcare was allocated in excess of 56,000 principal contributors. After that allocation of members to service providers, we were informed with evidence from both the Minister of State for Public Service and the Minister for Medical Services that, indeed, several of the branches of both Meridian and Clinix Healthcare were not in existent. A letter written by the Minister of State for Public Service to NHIF indicated that there were 11 facilities that never existed as by February, 2012 yet, the scheme was rolled out to provide service from 1st January, 2012. What happened was that there was a contract to provide services to members, but where the services could be obtained was not available. That is what we considered to be non-existing service providers. Whether it is non-existent or ghost service providers, all of them mean the same because they never existed at the time they were expected to give service."
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