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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, finally, the hon. Eseli in seconding the Report and the hon. Chairman in tabling the report said that they have made recommendations but when we in the Ministry initiated a management audit of NHIF by the IFC and Deloitte & Touche. IFC and Deloitte & Touche read carefully the report by Alexander Forbes and they came up with very far reaching recommendations for us and what we should do to roll out universal health care. Those recommendations are much more comprehensive and professional than the recommendations contained in this report. Why should this House adopt these recommendations and not take those which I now will table which will be much more useful to this House and the Government than this Report? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is something that was done professionally over a period of time and what I am going to do as the Minister is to call Members of Parliament to a retreat so that we can go through these things and we can roll out universal health care professionally. Finally, let me say one thing: I do not give up my constitutional rights simply because I am a Minister. When I appeared before the Committee, the Chairman, contrary to a letter he wrote to me, asked me an extempore question – a question off the cuff; whether I knew one of the public providers called Mr. Jayesh Saini and I told him that I knew him because he has come to my office. The Chairman himself has come to my office looking for business. So, why should I not know him but only the Chairman when he comes to my office looking for business? So, when the Chairman asked me that and I told him that I knew him, I did not understand that it is a criminal act to know somebody."
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