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    "id": 1020898,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1020898/?format=api",
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    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Gladys Wanga",
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        "legal_name": "Gladys Atieno Nyasuna",
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    "content": "exposed that, we might also bury our heads in the sand to try and deal with Covid-19 alone and forget some of the most pressing health priorities in this country. As I said, capacity building for our health workers is key. Covid-19 should not make us forget what we are going through as a country in terms of the health care burden. The increased burden on an already stretched healthcare system demands new and dynamic ways of operating. This proposed amendment serves to ensure the responsiveness of the healthcare system to the ever evolving nature of cancer prevention and control. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I have proposed another Bill that I presented to the Budget and Appropriations Committee (BAC) that will ensure that each and every county in this country has a Level 5 facility. Currently, we have only 11 Level 5 facilities. In Homa Bay County, we do not have a Level 5 facility and we do not know how to move our Level 4 facility to a Level 5 facility because there is no proper system of accreditation for those healthcare facilities. If we can have level five facilities in each and every county, this will go a long way in helping us. We can also make them national referral facilities. That is because of the excuses we make for our failing healthcare all the time. If we ask why a certain patient died, the national Government says health is devolved. While hospitals and healthcare are devolved, we cannot leave the lives of Kenyans to a Ping-Pong game between the national Government and county governments. Everyone must take their responsibility. We must ask if devolved healthcare is working. Are our hospitals working better because healthcare has been devolved in the manner it has? This is a question we must answer. That is why we are proposing that Level 5 facilities should be national referral facilities so that they are managed jointly by the national Government and county governments. So, that way, we can move forward. If we do not build capacity of our healthcare workers, even the infrastructure will be in futility. I would like to urge my colleagues to support this Bill so that we can avail training to our medical practitioners. We want to have more doctors taking care of our oncology needs as a county. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, with those many remarks, I beg to move and ask Hon. Martin Peters Owino, a renowned healthcare professional and former County Executive Committee (CEC) Member of Health in Homa Bay County to second. Thank you."
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