Anthony Githiaka Kiai

All parliamentary appearances

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• 17 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Pursuant to Standing Order No.33(1), I seek leave of the House for the purpose of discussing the inability by the NHIF to cover hospital bills for COVID-19 disease cases. Recently, the Ministry of Health explained that Kenyans will foot the bills for COVID-19 disease in both public and private hospitals. According to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, the cost burden of financing COVID-19 disease testing and treatment for the NHIF beneficiaries both in the national scheme and enhanced medical schemes will not be financially viable since it is not envisaged in the current NHIF premiums computation and the existing benefits ... view
• 17 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: It is for this reason and with your indulgence that I seek leave of the House in order to deliberate on this matter and explore ways of how the NHIF can be facilitated in order to cover the bills for COVID-19 disease cases. view
• 17 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 17 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: 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. view
• 17 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. This was an Adjournment Motion to discuss a matter of urgent national importance, that is the inability by the NHIF to cover hospital bills for COVID-19 cases. According to the Cabinet Secretary in the Ministry of Health, the cost burden of financing COVID-19, testing and treatment for NHIF beneficiaries, both in the national scheme and enhanced medical schemes will not be financially viable since it was not envisaged in the current NHIF premiums, computations and existing benefits package. So, he pointed out that pandemics and epidemics are exclusions in ... view
• 17 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: 19. I was in ICU for six days and I stayed in hospital for 14 days. I can tell you by the time I was taken to hospital; the doctor told me that I had only 30 minutes to live. I only survived because, as a Member of Parliament, I have that privilege and you are able to access the best medical care in this country. My question is this: What about that ordinary person? As the Cabinet Secretary has already stated, NHIF is not going to cater for medical expenses incurred as a result of trying to cure COVID-19. ... view
• 17 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The cost of treating COVID-19 is very high. By the time I left the hospital, I had incurred a bill of Kshs3million. This is not an amount that an ordinary person can pay. If I was told to pay from my pocket, I would have strained or called for Harambee . How about that common mwananchi ? The cost of testing COVID-19 in Kenya is very high and beyond reach. It cost about Kshs5,000 to Kshs20,000 to test for OOVID-19. Nowadays, when you go to hospital for any illness, the first thing they tell ... view
• 17 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: . All lives matter. My proposal would be for the Government to come up with a rescue package, just like it rescued the businesses and gave a package to Government parastatals and other sectors of the economy. We need to come up with a way to cushion ordinary wananchi from the rising COVID- 19 bills that are unsustainable. I have in mind something like SGR. We had to pay SGR Levy to sustain that white snake. We had to pay some Petroleum Levy to put up roads and infrastructure across the country. For the next two years or so, we ... view
• 17 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: when we have all the students back in school? We need to think hard about how to save our students from this COVID-19 menace; we have to think hard about how to save the common mwananchi from COVID-19; we have to think hard about how to save everybody from the COVID-19 pandemic. view
• 17 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as I sit down, the Government, through whatever method and structure, must come to the rescue of every Kenyan citizen. In other countries, it is happening. In the United States of America (USA), they have a package to ensure that those who suffer from COVID-19 get emergency treatment. For your information, in this country, very few hospitals have the capacity to handle COVID-19 patients. In Nairobi, there are only six hospitals. Outside Nairobi, they are very few. In some places, there are none. That is why people are dying left, right and centre. We cannot have ... view