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    "id": 916347,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kesses, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Swarup Mishra",
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        "legal_name": "Swarup Ranjan Mishra",
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    "content": "i) Mathari National Teaching and Referral Hospital; ii) National Spinal Injury Hospital; iii) Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital; iv) Kenyatta National Hospital. You will remember that the Committee had earlier tabled its Report on the newest and 5th referral hospital, the Kenyatta University Teaching and Referral Hospital earlier in the year and the House adopted the Report. Among the recommendations of that Report was that the Treasury was to release funds to jumpstart operations of the hospital, to ease pressure on Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH). I am glad the Treasury and the House passed this resolution in the just concluded Supplementary Budget. The President has since signed an Executive Order for its establishment as a legal entity and its operationalisation is underway. The Constitution of Kenya 2010 in the Fourth Schedule devolved provision of health services, save for national referral health facilities and the National Health Policy. The country’s health policy is currently driven by the Kenya Health Policy 2014-2030, which intends to see the attainment of the highest standard of health. It is under this ambit that the Government has embarked on a roll out of Universal Health Coverage (UHC), with a 100% target by 2022. The Committee is pulling its weight towards this Big Four Agenda of UHC and has visited and met with the boards and management of the hospitals in this pursuit. In this mission, the Committee observed that:"
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