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"speaker_name": "Mrs. Mugo",
"speaker_title": "The Minister for Public Health and Sanitation",
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"content": "Part âbâ of the Question was: How come they have not been paid since June last year and what is going to be the effect of this? The answer is that following the expiry of the UNICEF contract on 13th June, 2009, my Ministry did not have adequate budgetary provision to pay the workers their salaries with effect from 1st July, 2009. However, in view of the fact that the health workers were deployed in hard to reach areas and to avoid a crisis in service delivery owing to their withdrawing from the health facilities in these areas, approval was granted by the Ministry of State for Public Service to extend their services for a further period of one year with a view to absorbing them in the mainstream Civil Service. My Ministry is in the process of seeking additional funds from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance amounting to Kshs30,909,600 to pay the outstanding salaries for all staff engaged under the UNICEF Programme countrywide. Further, my Ministry is in the process of absorbing the affected personnel under the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) Programme. Part âcâ of the Question was: I would also like the Minister to consider providing the number of such personnel in other constituencies who have been paid. We need to have a comparison. In response to that, a total of 109 health workers under the UNICEF Programme in Eastern and North Eastern provinces were paid up to December, 2009. I wish to table a list of health workers from North Eastern Province who have been paid by the Ministry of Health."
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