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    "id": 986434,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Mwaura",
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is a very serious issue because we have indigents; people who cannot pay and will not pay. How do you deal with that? When you look at this COVID-19 crisis, it has exposed our health systems as meant for the rich. That is why the doctors overcharge 10 to 15 times what the nurses are earning. When you look at our NHIF, out of the Kshs38 billion that we give to this agency through the contributions, Kshs22 billion goes to private hospitals and another Kshs8 billion goes to faith-based hospitals, like Kikuyu Hospital. Only Kshs7 billion goes to public hospitals; yet, if these monies were properly appropriated, they would make a whole difference in terms of ensuring that such patients and families who are suffering a lot under this COVID19 where nobody is earning, have an opportunity to bury their dead with dignity. This is a serious matter, which we should be seized of. Now that the Chairperson of the Committee on Health has made his Statement here, maybe, the Chair should direct the COVID19 Ad hoc Committee deals with the matter. This is because we cannot take it back to him to superintend over this matter. We need to come up with measures because even the people who are suffering are not those that are vulnerable in the manner that we know during this COVID-19 crisis. As somebody said, “Coronavirus is a colonizer, Coronavirus is an equalizer.” Thank you."
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