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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Chege",
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        "legal_name": "Sabina Wanjiru Chege",
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    "content": "doctors will also be trained in Cuba. There is an enhanced programme on control of malaria in this country and also training that will benefit our students at KMTC. In spite of potential benefits of skills transfer the Ministry should also consider hiring some of the specialties who are local doctors to augment this effort. My Committee is also concerned about the slum upgrading project that has not been well implemented and the portable clinics that are lying unutilised partly because of lack of support from the identified counties meant to benefit from these projects. These issues were raised by the previous Committee. Upon the visit by the Committee to Mombasa where the containers are we found them in good shape. We noted that there are several other counties which have expressed interest of uptake of this project and the allocation of these clinics need to be demand-driven where counties willing or have expressed interest are allocated the portable clinics at their cost. We have also noted that the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Development had an interest in these containers where they wanted to use them as gender-based violence clinics to take care of victims. Therefore, we have advised the Ministry to liaise with the counties that are willing to take these containers and also the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Development instead of those clinics just lying in Mombasa unutilised. My Committee also noted that the slum upgrading project is part of an active Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) investigation hence the budgetary allocation to it was not feasible. That is why we advised the Ministry to take it up. In view of this my Committee recommended a reallocation of the budget for this project to rehabilitation and improvement of infrastructure across all the KMTC facilities in the country. There are those that have indicated on having new KMTC campuses. This is part of what is going to benefit the enhancement of our human resource in the health sector. At the same time, we will be able to benefit or achieve the Universal Health Care (UHC) programme The Committee noted that the Ministry has put efforts especially towards the support of universal healthcare as part of the Big Four Agenda, and has launched pilot programmes in four counties. The outcome of this pilot programme will guide future rollouts in other parts of the country. We are also aware that as we roll out this pilot programme for UHC, issuance of the NHIF card is not just enough. We need this and we are in collaboration and we are talking with the Ministry such that the counties where those pilots are done should be done on merit where they have enough personnel and medicine. So, we urge the Ministry not just to roll out the programme for the sake of rolling it out, but we should also reward the counties that are seen to really support the healthcare. The Committee heard that the Ministry as at 31st March 2018 had a pending bill of Kshs121,871,425. All this was as a result of Exchequer releases. Even through the Ministry, we will treat the pending bills as first charge in the subsequent financial year. This will have an effect of distorting the Budget as finances will be channelled away from the programmes to settle the bills. I also urge Hon. Members of this House, we have huge pending bills owed to KEMSA by various counties. It is sad that some of the governors have actually…"
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