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    "id": 1014970,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1014970/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Rev.) Waqo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13178,
        "legal_name": "Naomi Jilo Waqo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for allowing me to add my voice to this very important Report. I want to base my contribution on the Report. From the Report, according to the Ministry of Health, the MES project was aimed at accelerating progress towards attaining the health sector goals of equitable, affordable and quality healthcare at the highest attainable standards. This is something that can really encourage anybody and especially counties that really needed this equipment. From the Report, it is quite clear that MES has not served the intended purpose. Attaining equitable, affordable and quality healthcare services is something that is relevant, that can save and transform the health sector. Unfortunately, this did not happen. The other main aim of MES was to equip Level Four and Level Five hospitals with specialized modern and state of the art equipment so as to ensure that all citizens, regardless of location, have access to centralized, quality health services. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when we were told about MES and what it was to do, a county like Marsabit where we have a Level Five hospital and has suffered in many ways, we gained a lot of hope. Unfortunately, that has not happened. From the recommendations of the Committee that has sat for many months, discussed, deliberated, visited, done their own analysis and come up with this big Report, that we are all going through now, the Committee that I highly respect, alongside the Report that they have given us, we must say a big thank you to the team because they sacrificed a lot in order for this information to be placed before us. From their recommendation, it is clear that the design of the MES Project was not conducted in accordance with the constitutional provisions. That is where the vacuum is. According to the Committee’s observations, county governments were not involved in the needs assessment. Therefore, whatever they were given was not according to their needs. From their recommendations, the equipment supplied under the project was not tailored to suit the unique and specific needs of each county. This is very sad because many of our counties have been suffering and this project was expected to transform their lives, but unfortunately, it did not help them."
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