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    "id": 89797,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang’-Nyong’o",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Medical Services",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 193,
        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "(iii) New Nyanza Provincial General Hospital with two machines. (c) The Ministry’s plan is to progressively equip all provincial hospitals with dialysis machines by the year 2012. Indeed, when we started in 2008, there were only five dialysis machines at KNH but we have increased the number both at KNH and at those three provincial Government hospitals that I have mentioned. So, three of these hospitals have already received some machines under this arrangement. The remaining provincial hospitals will similarly be equipped with dialysis machines within this planning period. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, while equipping hospitals with dialysis machines, we must also understand that dialysis machines need the service of nurses specifically trained in dialysis management. So, at the moment at KNH, we are training nurses who will proceed to work at the New Nyanza General Hospital. We hope we shall progressively do the same with the other hospitals as time continues. But finally, it must be noted that a dialysis machine costs Kshs3 million to procure and install. However, the biggest cost goes to the consumables for dialysis and this averages Kshs4,00 per patient per session. If a patient gets at least two sessions per week, that translates into Kshs30,000 per patient per month. Due to this high cost of dialysis, it is quite often very difficult to waive the cost to patients. It is, therefore, imperative that the patient should have insurance so that they can have access to health care. Hence, the need to up-scale the insurance given to patients in the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) to cover such costs."
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