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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Monda",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Onsare Monda",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, out of 56 outlets for Clinix Healthcare, as at the beginning of January, 2012, there were only 22 registered branches that existed in this country. In the list of providers that were circulated to members of NHIF or civil servants, there were 56 branches. Out of the 56 listed branches, 22 existed by January which gives us a difference of 34 providers that never existed at the time they were contracted to give service. Therefore, 34 branches could not provide service to the members allocated to them. Therefore, it means that 34 service providers where ghosts or non-existent. So, the monies indicated by NHIF to have been paid to those branches were paid to ghost service providers. We, as a Committee, recommend that the amount paid to non-existing facilities be recovered. As a Committee, we recommended that the amount that was paid to non-existent facilities be recovered. If you move to the Meridian Medical Centre, you will find that the registered service providers were 13 as at the beginning of January, 2012 and yet that was the time the programme was rolled out. If you look at the list provided by the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) to the Committee, you will see that there were 18 service providers that were enlisted and paid for to provide services to the members. The difference is that 13 were registered but 18 were paid. We have five that were paid, indeed, at a time that they were not in operation to give service. We consider all monies that were allocated to these facilities because the list tabled by the NHIF indicated a facility and the amount of money for each service provider. For Clinix, 56 service providers were paid for providing services. For Meridian, 18 were listed and each one of them was shown to have been paid. We had a list given by the Administrator of the Fund but that is the premise from where the payments were done. For Meridian, we have five branches that were paid for not providing any service. We recommended that the amount be recovered because it was paid to facilities that could not give services. From that point, therefore, we noticed that the Ministry of State for Public Service was aware of the non-existence of these facilities. There was even a letter written to the NHIF showing that there were facilities that never existed. At this point, we understand that the Ministry did not advice the NHIF to suspend these payments because the Ministry had detected that the contract was flawed because the service providers were not in existence. It is from this premise that we recommend investigations against the Minister of State for Public Service. They knew that there were facilities that did not exist that had been contracted but did not raise a red flag or to question the contracting of such facilities where no services would be provided to members."
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