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    "id": 1005828,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Murang’a CWR, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Sabina Chege",
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        "legal_name": "Sabina Wanjiru Chege",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. From the outset, I support. However, as Hon. Junet has said, health has been one of the beneficiaries of this Supplementary Budget III because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Notably, we have also received money from donors like the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) that we had to put in the budget. Even though we have Ksh5.8 billion, as the money that has been allocated by the President to the counties, I want to urge Members that as they go back to their constituencies, they take time… I know the Senate is supposed to be overseeing what the counties are doing, but we need to be sure that the money we are giving to counties, Ksh5.8 billion, is put to proper use. This is not little money. I know some counties had already reserved some money for COVID-19 pandemic. We are anticipating that each county in the country will have at least a 300 bed capacity hospital that can be used as an isolation center for COVID-19 pandemic. However, we will need to interrogate whether this money that has been given to the counties is utilised for health purposes. We have given counties Ksh3.4 billion for frontline health workers. That is encouraging. We needed to boost their morale. I am happy that this money has finally been allocated to the frontline health workers in the national and county governments. There was money that was supposed to go to the medical facilities that Hon. Wambugu alluded to. That money was ring-fenced by this Parliament. It is sad to know that since Parliament allocated that money, it has not been released to these facilities. The Ministry in its wisdom requested for some of this money. It was Ksh3 billion where Ksh2 billion was for the testing kits, reagents and to take care of isolation facilities at KMTC. I want to urge the Budget and Appropriations Committee to look for a way of getting Ksh700 million that had been requested by KMTC. Once we reinstate this money, it means KMTCs that we have been using as quarantine centers will be left with a debt. The facilities that we ring-fenced money for, the Ministry of Health had allocated them money. The Government is also allocating money to the Coast General Hospital in Mombasa County and Kisumu County, which were the greatest beneficiaries, and Kitui 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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