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    "id": 1012944,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13219,
        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I may not use the entire 11 minutes because I had already summed up my thoughts. I will proceed from where I had stopped and emphasize that community volunteers have always been based on the concept that people want to volunteer their services to enhance community health care. I still want to persuade the Sponsor of this Bill that if we can move this Bill from the idea of having community health workers to community health volunteers, it will be very helpful to our counties. In terms of the wage bill - if we all interact with our counties – if you speak to the health executives in most counties, our health sector wage bill is already taking almost 50 per cent of the total wage bill. In my particular case, in the County Government of Nyamira, 50 per cent of our wage bill is taken up by people who serve in the health sector. If we push the community health workers to be absorbed into the wage bill of counties, if you take an estimate of the County Government of Nyamira, we are talking about an increase of over Kshs1 billion. Madam Deputy Speaker, having fought very hard for enhanced allocation to the County Government of Nyamira, if the National Treasury will avail Kshs50 billion next year, the most we will be able to get is Kshs5.1 billion. If we surrender another Kshs1 billion to be taken care of by the wage bill, it means that the County Government of Nyamira may not even have money for development. Another point that I want to make is that I do not see what mechanism can be put in place, where all the community healthcare volunteers serving in various counties in the Republic, whom I must say are doing a very good job, can be absorbed into the wage bill without going through interviews. I received a report on an outbreak of one case of Coronavirus Disease (COVID- 19) that happened in one of my local markets, in a place called Ikonge in Nyamira today. When I spoke to the County Executive Committee (CEC) member for Health, he told me that he had already gotten in touch with the community healthcare workers, to mobilize the contacts of the people who had gotten in touch with that patient. That goes to show how important these people are to our communities. Sen. (Dr.) Zani, who sponsored this particular Bill---"
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