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    "id": 643754,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nakara",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2926,
        "legal_name": "John Lodepe Nakara",
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    "content": "personnel. It is another thing to have drugs yet you do not have personnel. On cancer cases we need to have specialists in those hospitals so that when cancer patients go there they get proper treatment. That is why we need to support this Bill. On the issue of compensation to health facilities, there are some hospitals that charge a small fee for drugs and this is discouraging. The county government must make sure that when a poor person goes to hospital with no money they get treatment because the Government has provided this grant to all the hospitals to compensate health care. We have some patients in pastoralists’ counties who do not know that this grant exists. They are told to pay for injections, medicine and their medical file. We need to educate our people that there is this kind of money in every hospital and they will not be charged user fees. On the issue of roads maintenance, we need to encourage the county government to make sure that the roads within the county are accessible and feeder roads are also in good condition. What will expand the counties are the roads. When we have good roads, businesses will flourish and people will travel in and out of the counties to their jobs. I want to appeal to the county governments to make sure that road maintenance money is used well to connect the counties for better transportation. On the issue of special medical grant that has been allocated Ksh.31 million, I want to encourage the county governments of Tana River and Lamu to use this money wisely. I wish they could have also added Turkana County because we border Uganda, South Sudan and Ethiopia. Whenever there are raids in those areas, they bring patients to Lodwar, where we have a hospital that can help them. In future we hope they will consider Turkana in this grant. With those few remarks, I support. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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