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    "id": 643763,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Njuki",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1372,
        "legal_name": "Onesmus Muthomi Njuki",
        "slug": "onesmus-muthomi-njuki"
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    "content": "Lastly, on medical equipment, the national Government was reasonable to have sourced equipment for Levels 4 and 5 hospitals. The equipment is there but you will be surprised that it is just lying there. Governors use it to show people how hard they are working. We do not have the personnel to operate the equipment because the people we have are not properly trained. The other day we had a serious case. A man was misdiagnosed with cancer. He had been going to a health club, observing diet by eating fish, avoiding excessive alcohol and causative factors of lifestyle diseases. He decided to change his lifestyle because he was told he only had six months to live. So, he decided to do all the things he never had an opportunity to do. Without going into details of how he changed his lifestyle, by the time he went back to the doctor to ask why he had not died, the doctor could not recognise him. He was now overweight, had diabetes and HIV/AIDS but did not have cancer. Even if you sue the doctor for misdiagnosis, how do you take back part of the life without mentioning that the man was now very broke since he wanted to spend everything before he died? With equipment and medicine, we need to have trained personnel so that we can take care of the lives of people. As we allocate this money to the county governments, they should not only emphasise on paying money for leasing of equipment but they need to hire trained personnel without looking at the county boundaries. My county, and it is not in bad taste, is known to have sent away doctors because they did not come from our county. You get good doctors from Kisumu County but do not hire them because they do not come from your county. You end up losing out. We should look at some of those things so that we can provide better services to our people. At the end of the day, when I go to the hospital with 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."
}