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    "id": 1020935,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1020935/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Molo, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13435,
        "legal_name": "Francis Kuria Kimani",
        "slug": "francis-kuria-kimani"
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. From the outset, I congratulate my Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning for coming up with this very great Bill. From the outset, Kenya has invested a lot in infrastructure in terms of buildings. If you go to every constituency in every county, each governor is building a dispensary here and another one there. The next thing they have done with the help of the Ministry of Health is to buy a lot of equipment. No wonder we have the current case of the Managed Equipment Service (MES) that has been supplied across the country. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I served on the Public Accounts Committee.You and I had the privilege of visiting some of those hospitals across the country and you will agree with me that a very small dispensary somewhere in Siaya has all this equipment worth millions of shillings. The surprise was that there were no personnel to operate this equipment. Therefore, the Bill by Hon. Wanga states that we must hire and train those professionals. It is the only way we will fight cancer and streamline our health sector. It is probably because it is very easy to get kickbacks on those constructions and buying of this equipment and probably not the same, if we are recruiting those professionals that the emphasis has not been on the personnel. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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