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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Chege",
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        "legal_name": "Sabina Wanjiru Chege",
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    "content": "Some of the key projects that the Ministry will implement will include the continuing programmes of leasing of MES, purchase of CT Scans, allocation of conditional grants to Level 5 hospitals, establishment of cancer centres where the intention is by the end of this financial year we should have four cancer centres and an improvement in the following years. We have free maternity strategic interventions, vaccines and immunisations and several donor funded interventions aimed at supporting the universal health care agenda amongst others. As a Committee we deliberated and some of the observations on the Budget in which decisions have been made are as follows: Some of the key budgetary allocations in the Ministry of Health are conditional grants to county governments. Most of these conditional grants relating to health functions going to the county governments take time to reach the intended health facilities since the funds must first pass through the County Revenue Fund before reaching the health facilities hence hampering service delivery. This means, if money for health is sent to the county and it is not ring-fenced then the county can choose to use it for other functions like roads or other popular functions which they think are better than health. This is a matter of concern to us as a Committee and thus this House needs to think of ways in which the relevant public finance laws can be amended. This will allow conditional allocations to be dispersed directly to the health facilities for fast service delivery, while at the same time put in place accountability systems to ensure that these allocations are spent well as intended. There are also very huge historical investments in the health sector which are aimed at supporting the overall goal of universal health care. Some of these investments include the leasing of medical equipment and purchase of CT-Scans. As a Committee we will follow up and monitor the implementation of these investments to ensure that the benefits are felt in the country. We interacted with the Budget and Appropriations Committee while they did public participation and some of these equipment are functioning very well apart from six or seven facilities where they have not been used at all. My Committee will carry out inspections on these projects and will take drastic budgetary measures, if what is on the ground in terms of implementation does not reflect the huge budget allocation to this project. A point to note is that they have also proposed an additional 21 facilities in addition to the 98 that were covered in the last financial year. My Committee also observed that the military has entered into an exchange programme with the Cuba Government on the area of medicine. The programme is elaborate where apart from what the public knows about doctors coming from Cuba and some of them landed last night, Kenyan The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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