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National Assembly's chair Robert Pukose (left) shares a word with Principle Secretary Medical Services Harry Kimtai and Public Health PS Mary Muthoni during a joint Committee sitting on April 26, 2024. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]
Amid concerns over proposed budgetary cuts to the Ministry of Health, members of Parliament have requested that the National Treasury allocates resources in the upcoming and subsequent financial year budgets as a waiver, at referral and specialised hospitals that provide care to indigent patients.
MPs who sit in the National Assembly Committee on Health argue that the facilities, despite waving medical bills for thousands of patients, are never compensated by the National Treasury for incurred huge costs.
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