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    "id": 915837,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/915837/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Wilberforce Oundo",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13331,
        "legal_name": "Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo",
        "slug": "wilberforce-ojiambo-oundo-2"
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    "content": "The NHIF has featured prominently in this Report. I commend the Departmental Committee on Health for having the courage to bring out the fundamental and structural issues bedeviling NHIF. Through the NG-CDF Committee, I have given 580 people in my constituency, through social facilities, NHIF cards which we dutifully pay for every month without fail to a tune of almost Kshs3.5 million each financial year. But it has been a depressing and stressing situation that an elderly sick person goes to most of the hospitals in my constituency and two things come out. One is that most of these hospitals are unwilling to treat them because NHIF does not pay or reimburse the hospitals in good time. Many of the funds that come through NHIF pass through county government in a common pool. They do not reach the particular hospitals to a point they find it improper and a waste of time and waste of the limited medical supplies to treat patients under this programme because they are not reimbursed. It is high time the NHIF, probably through an amendment in the Public Finance Management Act, made all levels equal to ensure the funding goes directly to the hospitals."
}