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    "id": 719748,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/719748/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Otucho",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 12837,
        "legal_name": "Mary Emaase Otuch",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, this Division of Revenue Bill also provides for grants to the county governments resulting from increased fuel levy. They will be receiving Kshs20,416 million towards maintenance of roads and they will also be receiving other monies from the World Bank. We have World Bank loans and we have grants. We have World Bank loans to the tune of Kshs7.9 million and also grants to the tune of Kshs 12.5 million. Among the allocations, I also want to comment further on the allocations to National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF). In the last financial year, these resources were part of the national Government allocations. We realised that most of the women were turned away from certain hospitals. They could not be given services because of the delays in the reimbursements of these monies by NHIF. So, in this Financial Year, in the Budget and Appropriations Committee, we feel that we need to commend the good work that the NHIF is currently doing across the country. To this respect therefore, the Committee deemed it fit to channel funds for Government policy on provision of free maternal health care through the NHIF framework so that this money goes directly to NHIF and it is therefore intended to reach more mothers for both prenatal and postnatal care. This is a very important allocation because it goes towards taking care of health of our mothers and children."
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