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    "id": 1019189,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Pareno",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Judith Ramaita Pareno",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for allowing me to comment on this Statement and I thank Sen. Wetangula for this Statement. Mr. Temporary Speaker, I must say that I am embarrassed to say the least, that this is coming from none other than my deputy party leader, from a party that really believes in devolution; a party that should be working hard so that we have devolution working. I really wonder whether Gov. Oparanya has really looked at the effect of what he has done today and the statement that he has made today. Closing of all the hospitals and sending the health workers on leave for 14 days would really bring such a big crisis in this country in the health sector. I do not know what he really wants for this country. My question to Gov. Oparanya is whether he would want to see people lying in the entrances of the hospitals unattended, being turned away or seeing them lying dead because they will come for health attention and they will not get it. I am not sure that he has looked at the effect of what he has said and it is really embarrassing. I think it is the honorable thing for him to do, to withdraw that statement with immediate effect. I therefore, echo the same sentiments that the rest of the Senators have echoed here. Although Sen. Kabaka has said that his county seems to have already started effecting, we should not see at all any single hospital closed. For some of you Senators, maybe you do not know what some of us go through. Some of us do not even have the luxury of closing because we almost have none. We have very little. The little we have, came out of this devolution that we have celebrated. Before we could only count two big hospitals in Kajiado, that is Kajiado District Hospital and the one in Loitoktok. The rest are very simple and with lean staff in the dispensaries. We do not brag; we do not have much. So, we cannot afford to close, it will be too costly for Kajiado. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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