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    "id": 865361,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Nyikal",
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        "legal_name": "James Nyikal",
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    "content": "by them, including supportive infrastructure and allocating enough resources towards the same. Professionals in the sector must also accept that Universal Health Care will not be attained unless services are within reach to the common mwananchi . It is in this spirit that we recommended a review of professional fees charged by medical personnel. I think that is already in progress. In the foregoing, the Committee made the following recommendations: (1) That the National Treasury immediately allocates Kshs656,682,207 for the dry run budget and Kshs1,060,490,567.19 for the soft run to the hospital, that is, the opening. The allocation should be factored in the next Supplementary Budget for National Assembly’s ratification. This would trigger release of an undisbursed loan of Kshs1.37 billion for personnel and capacity building. That is part of the loan that has actually not been released because there are no personnel to be trained. So that is still lying as part of the loan. (2) That KU and Treasury to re-look into the PPP approach and consider the original plan of the university running the hospital. If the model settled upon is PPP, then Treasury should give clear guidelines on competitive identification of the private partner. The Committee is actually of the view that Kenyatta University should be supported as much as possible. Even if there is PPP, the facility should be run as part of the university and not as a parastatal or part of a different ministry. (3) That the Ministries of Health and Education, Science and Technology be actively involved in these discussions and take a leading role in matters of health policy and teaching respectively. (4) That National Treasury amends the On-Lending Agreement with Kenyatta University to allow it adequate time to reorganise its finances to enable it meet its loan repayment obligations under the On-Lending arrangement."
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