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"content": " I know Prof might be confusing. I have a Bill that was presented before their Committee, the Assisted Reproductive Healthcare Bill, which deals only with assisted reproduction. However, I am talking about the Family Reproductive Healthcare Bill, which is comprehensive. I am asking so that they do not waste human resource and time, either theirs or mine. If they have a comprehensive Bill, I do not have a problem - I can give them ideas. We are in the business of giving expertise. I have given the Ministry of Children Affairs input before, but I need to know if they have a Bill and the stage it is at. Mine is at the pre-publication stage and a lot of research has gone into it. I would like to know if they are serious about it and how we can proceed to ensure that we do not waste either their time or mine."
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"speaker_name": "Hon. Aden Duale",
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"content": " Hon. Speaker, this is my 15th day at the Ministry of Health. I want to assure Hon. Millie Odhiambo that her Bill with her good ideas along with the Ministry’s Bill have been combined. It is now at the Attorney General’s Office. You know me - I am going to fast-track it. When it comes to the Committee of the whole House, if there is anything we have left, you will propose it. The Reproductive Health Bill is very important and I will push it. I want to confirm to Hon. Jaldesa, my good friend from the North, that no Kenyan will be or should be detained as long as they have registered with SHA, effective 1st April this year. A further budgetary allocation has been provided under what you did in this House for Emergency, Chronic and Critical Illness Fund (ECCF), which enabled facilities to be reimbursed. For example, we have increased critical cancer reimbursement to Ksh550,000 and Intensive Care Unit (ICU) to Ksh28,000 per day. I want to give an example because there was also another case of ICU. If you have a patient in the hospital and your bill is Ksh1.1 million, and SHA pays Ksh500,000, is that a progressive healthcare system? That was not there during the defunct NHIF. I believe I have answered the question on teenage mothers. Hon. Speaker, on the question of strikes by Prof. Jaldesa, I want to assure him that the success of the Universal Health Coverage or Taifa Care depends on how we handle the human resource aspect of our health system. That is why I met with the Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists Dentists Union (KMPDU) leadership. It is also why I am sorting out the issue of internship in consultation with the county governments, the Presidency, National Treasury, Departmental Committee on Health and the Universal Health Coverage workers. I also had a meeting with the Council of Governors (CoG) and in my opinion, Kenyans must talk to each The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"content": "other not talk at each other. There is light at the end of the tunnel. We want doctors, nurses, clinicians and all health workers in our country to be the champions and promoters of Universal Health Coverage named Taifa Care. Hon. Kagiri asked about means testing flat rate. There is nothing called a flat rate. We must assess. The bottom is Ksh300 and there are those who cannot even pay Ksh50 and so, we must pay for them. We do not want those who can pay Ksh800 or Ksh1, 000 to be excluded that is why we have structured the system in such a way that payments can be made per month, two months or even more. Those who can pay must pay and those who cannot pay will have the rest of us pay for them. It is a pooling system. That is why the Speaker is paying about Ksh47,000 or more, Members of Parliament are paying Ksh32,000 and mama mboga will pay Ksh300. Even within the mama mboga’s structure, there are those with kiosks and those who carry their merchandise on a mkokoteni. They are at different levels but pooling the resources together will provide our people with Universal Health Care. Above all, the 21 million Kenyans who have registered can access any primary public, private or faith-based health facilities, free of charge as per the budgets allocated and appropriated by this House. Hon. Speaker, there was an issue raised by Hon. Pauline on registration, with Samburu being at the bottom. There are several ways you can register if you have your iPhone or an android, please go to www.sha.go.ke."
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"content": "Hon. Cabinet Secretary, what about a Samburu herdsman?"
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"content": " I am coming to that. I am giving the four ways, if you can wait. For those who do not have phones like the herdsmen who look after my own camels, we have 107,000 community health workers in every village across Kenya who can register them. Those who have phones like kabambe or mulika mwizi, just need to dial *147# to register. For those with computers and iPhones, we are upgrading the application on iPhone, which will be available in the next one week. So, there are several ways you can register. You can also walk to the nearest Huduma Centres and SHA offices. We will ensure that our counties, including Samburu and others, are well supported. I see you are sitting next to my Member of Parliament. Hon. Speaker, that is why I am here. I want the Members of Parliament to help us in registering Kenyans, starting this weekend. Yesterday, I asked the Council of Governors to publish the best 10 counties. I thank the leadership of Mombasa, Nyeri, Bomet, Kirinyaga, Elgeyo Marakwet, Kericho and Nandi counties. In Mombasa County, my sister who is the Woman Representative is here, the Governor and the leadership together took deliberate efforts to register people. Today, 59 per cent of Mombasa residents are registered with SHA. The Governors only allowed me to mention the top 10 counties. However, from next month, we will focus on 10 counties in each month going forward. We will start with Kisumu and Migori counties. In the former eight provinces, we will focus on two of them. We will also go to Kilifi County. We will start by inviting the county leadership on the first day, from the governors all the way to the Members of County Assemblies (MCAs) and Members of Parliament. I will be there, so that we can tell our people to register en masse. Kenyans are already registering between 40,000 to 50,000 everyday but some counties lag behind. I will give an example of the number two county, which is Bomet. Out of a target population of 875,000, 426,000 people have registered for SHA. It is working and helping Kenyans. Do not listen to the naysayers. Hon. Bisau talked about Trans Nzoia County and other county governments. Today, I want to report that during the days of the defunct NHIF, private hospitals and the faith-based facilities used to lead in terms of number of patients. But today, 51 per cent of Kenyans access public facilities and, more so, Level 2 to Level 4 hospitals that are found in our counties. This is because drugs and doctors are available and the facility is paid. We are not paying the county The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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"content": "treasury. The facility is the one that is paid by SHA. They claim it from SHA. Trans Nzoia County is one of the counties which we will visit. We will do this, minus politics, because the lives of our people come first. Every leader, beginning with the President, should protect the lives of our people. This is our constitutional and moral duty. I will be on this matter for some time because I really want to help you. For the next six months, I will only talk about health. There are many other issues relating to health but today, I decided to deal with this. I did not get the name of the Member at the far end whose question was on the manipulation of NHIF and staff audit. I said we have over 800 NHIF staff. In the Social Health Insurance Act, 2023 that was passed by this House, you stated that the first priority should be given to the NHIF staff in a competitive recruitment and to ensure that their papers are in order."
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"speaker_title": "Hon. Ferdinand Wanyonyi",
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"content": " On a point of order, Hon. Speaker."
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"content": "Yes, Hon. Ferdinand. What is out of order?"
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"speaker_title": "Hon. Ferdinand Wanyonyi",
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"content": " This is just an input."
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