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    "id": 983520,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Murang’a CWR, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Sabina Chege",
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        "legal_name": "Sabina Wanjiru Chege",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to update the House on the preparedness and the response measures that the Ministry of Health has taken. The Ministry continues to maintain heightened surveillance at all points of entry. Health facilities and communities across the country are required to promptly identify any additional COVID-19 case. Further, the Government has put in place the following interventions: On the governance side, His Excellency the President, Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta issued Executive Order No.2 of 2020 on 28th February that, among other things, ordered the formation of a National Emergency Response Committee. The move set in motion the adoption by the whole Government multi-agency approach at two levels – policy and technical levels. Ministries, Departments and Agencies have been brought onboard to deal with the threat of COVID-19 and a committee, which is being chaired by the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Hon. Mutahi Kagwe, has since been constituted and is currently providing policy direction towards preparedness and prevention of COVID-19, latest being the update on the fourth infected person this afternoon. The country has developed a contingency plan to guide the implementation of priority preparedness and response activities in view of the threat posed by importation of COVID-19 into Kenya. The National Treasury has released Kshs300 million for implementation of COVID- 19 preparedness and response interventions to the various Ministries and Departments. An emergency operation centre has been fully activated to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak, with toll-free 719 that members of the public can call to report any incident. The Government, in collaboration with Safaricom Company, has set up a call centre to enhance communication on COVID-19. This is important because when such cases arise, members of the public call you as their leaders. You reach a call centre by dialling 719 for audio messages or *71# for short text messages. This applies across all mobile telephone networks. It is important for Members to know. I have just been informed by the Member for Embakasi that they had a case in Embakasi South, in Mukuru – that, he has been struggling to get the Ministry to go and pick a suspected case. The Government of Kenya, through the Ministry of Health, has the necessary capacity of testing COVID-19. This is just to assure Kenyans to remain calm. The country has received testing kits from Africa Centres for Disease Control (Africa CDC) and the WHO. Testing of samples collected from persons meeting the case definition criteria of a suspected case, in line with the WHO, are currently being undertaken at KEMRI and at the National Influenza Centre laboratories. More kits are being mobilised. Additional sites include Kilifi, Kisumu, Kericho and The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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