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"speaker_name": "Wajir South, JP",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Mohamed Mohamud",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support the Health (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.64 of 2019). I want to thank Hon. Mishra for bringing this matter up. This is a crucial and important Amendment Bill. This is because the health of our society is paramount and a prerogative of our legislative service to our community. This is an important Bill because the reason why our patients are referred out of this country is in order to get the support they have failed to get from this country. This country has failed communities when it comes to health over the years. It costs us United States of America (USA) dollars $11 million which is equivalent to Kshs1.1 billion that is spent by Kenyans every year on health tourism. I support this Bill, but it makes me wonder why our health services remain at perils and does not provide the sufficiency required by the community. In our health systems, we have levels one, two, three, four, five and six hospitals. Level one is community health services, level two is dispensaries, level three is health centres, level four is county health services, and level five is county referral services while level six is tertiaryreferral institutions. What I want to take over at this stage and consider more is the level six hospitals which are tertiary referral hospitals. In Kenya, we have about four teaching, research and referral hospitals. They are KNH, MTRH, Mathari National Teaching and Referral Hospital and National Spinal Injury Hospital. These are referral hospitals where patients are referred from counties and brought to major cities like Nairobi and Eldoret. What makes me wonder is why those institutions are not well serviced, supported and cannot deliver what is required. On top of that, we have competent health facilities such as the Aga Khan University Hospital and faith-based institutions such as MP Shah Hospital and Mater Misericordiae Hospital. Those are institutions that can be supported to ensure our patients do not necessarily get into debt. It costs them considerable amount of money to travel overseas where they spend money which they can easily save."
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