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    "id": 850092,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "So, Hon. Sabina Chege you have work. This is compounded by the fact that the market has gone rock and is setting its prices so high to practically milk the insurance fund like the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF). Even the most basic service is being priced very highly. For example, a child who has been amputated is being charged for the provision of slippers by a health facility, this is indeed fraud. A child’s both legs are amputated and in the bill you will find that they charged him for slippers that he never wore. I am serious and we must as a Parliament deal with this matter. The rivalry we saw in the last one week tells you that there is something serious going on. I really thank the Departmental Committee on Health who, again, sat with the stakeholders and listened to them yesterday and, among the many things they wanted, we ultimately agreed to recommit the few that we did this afternoon in the interest of the House. My call to pharmacists and pharmaceutical technologists and healthcare workers is that the power to legislate is only vested in this House. You cannot be a pharmacist out there and you want to legislate. You either become like Dr. Nyikal, Dr.Pukose and Dr.Eseli that while you still hold those professions, you become a Member of Parliament. I know to become a Member of Parliament is not a walk in the park. I, therefore, request to shift their focus on affordability of healthcare services and products. Finally, I beg to move and ask the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Health, Hon. Sabina Chege, to second."
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