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    "speaker_name": "Baringo CWR, KANU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Gladwell Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Gladwell Jesire Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "as if those facilities were being overfunded. They get their initial and conditional grants from the National Treasury. They also get their UHC funds and, at the same time, we were adding some other unconditional grants from the Ministry. We realised it was a triple allocation. That was not even the big problem. The problem is that the additional grants that were given to the Level 5 facilities have, up to now, not been structured. They have not been audited. We do not know the outcome. We do not know whether the money has really improved those facilities. So, what we said is that the Kshs4.2 billion be given to the requirements of the hospitals that are really suffering in this country. We allocated this money to the National Spinal Injury Hospital, Mathare Hospital, Kenyatta National Hospital and the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, but to our surprise, the money was not taken there. The Budget and Appropriations Committee gave a good reason, which would have made them not to allocate the funds to Level 5 hospitals again. What they said is that there were no structures and the money was to be just kept there until structures are put in place so that it can be used. It is important for this House to note that Kenyans are suffering. Money cannot be kept somewhere waiting for UHC. It is also important to know that UHC is not a block animal at a certain corner. It is about treating and giving services to the people of Kenya. You cannot have a UHC as a one block thing – UHC is achieved from several quarters in the ministry, including improved services in the facilities that we have. It is the core function of the Ministry and the Departmental Committee on Health. We are for it but what we are saying right now is that the rollout money that was budgeted for that is Kshs4.6 billion. At the moment, UHC is at the piloting level or point. Before we get the real report on piloting, how will we give money to roll it out and yet we are not even sure whether the piloting report will allow us to continue with the method that was put? So, we said that money should go to the facilities which are suffering in terms of medicine, equipment and other things. To our surprise, all the money and everything we did was scrapped. It has rendered our Committee useless. We are feeling very sad as a Committee. We want interventions because it is not good for money to be put in a place without policies and structures. It is very unfortunate for us to be told that money will be kept there until those things are done. So, we are disappointed as a Committee. Hon. Chair, you should know that even though you are smiling, we are not happy. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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