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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Were",
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    "content": "place, so that we get a better prices or what we call economies of scale and that the quality of this equipment is standardized. I was previously in the Committee on Health. We went around hospitals inspecting the equipment procured through this scheme. I want to confirm that much of the equipment that was in these hospitals was working. I want to specify on the dialysis machines. In almost all these hospitals, dialysis machines were working properly and were well maintained. Reagents came when they were required. In fact, if there was any breakdown of any machine, it was sorted out within 24 hours by the people who supplied these machines. Mr. Speaker, Sir, these machines have also generated income for counties. Therefore, most counties have been able to increase their own source revenue and reduce their over reliance on the national sharable revenue that disturbed us in this House for over three months. Mr. Speaker, Sir, however, there are gaps that I have noticed in this scheme that we need to look at as a Senate. One of them is an inadequacy of an existing law that can work as a framework for procurement of capital intensive medical equipment. The laws that we have now are not adequate to take care of equipment that is capital intensive. The second gap was the role of counties. Counties were not involved in this process, yet money is deducted at source and it is also increased habitually. Those are the two gaps in the law to guide capital intensive medical equipment procurement and the role of counties. This process was too centralized, yet the implementation was at the county level. With that, I commend the Committee for the work that they did. I agree with their findings, especially on the machines that are working in the counties. It is now up to counties to make sure that these machines in their counties are fully utilized."
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