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"content": "Secondly, Mr. Speaker, Sir, as hon. Members are aware, last year we provided funds for the construction and equipping of a maternal and child health care ward in every constituency. I am happy to note that all tenders were successfully awarded and construction is progressing well in most constituencies. As part of the wider programme to expand and upgrade our healthcare facilities, I have allocating another Kshs.5million for each constituency towards expanding our healthcare facilities to include wards for children and adults. Thirdly, Mr. Speaker, Sir, to ensure our critical patients receive timely medical attention throughout the country, I am going a step further to provide in this Budget 300 ambulances for use in our healthcare facilities. Fourthly, as a Government that cares for its people, we are not just putting more money to avail medicine in our healthcare for curative purposes; we will also going ahead to strengthen the management of the medical supplies chain. To this end, I have allocated Kshs4.4 billion for the purchase of drugs and another Kshs900 million for ARVs to make this important life saving medicines available for our people in health facilities. As part of our efforts to enhance efficiency in healthcare service delivery, we will deepen reforms in the healthcare sector, including strengthening KEMSAâs procurement capacity and accountability, improving supply chain management of public health resources and strengthening the supervision of medical supplies to rural health facilities. These interventions together with the ones we initiated last year now brings to total 35 additional nurses, five public health officers, ten community health workers, ten motorcycles and 30 bicycles expanded and upgraded health care facilities, ambulances and Kshs.5million worth of medical kits in every constituency. I now fully expect the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation to roll out preventative healthcare programmes and demonstrate immediate and measurable results in improving the health status of our people. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as we strive to achieve the middle income status by 2030, we must ensure that everybody and every region is empowered to participate effectively in the development process. Therefore, going forward, our focus will be ensuring that we attain broad based and sustainable growth. To achieve this, we must invest in rural infrastructure, agriculture, particularly crop production, fish farming and livestock development. We must also invest in environmental conservation to ensure that this growth is sustainable. The agricultural sector is central to our economy providing 23 per cent of our GDP and a source of livelihood for the majority of Kenyans and accounting for the bulk of our exports. Despite the importance and the reform progress made this far, the sector continues to suffer from a considerable range of constraints. Some of these challenges which are well known to hon. Members include; inadequate extension services and credit; low application of modern technology; poor rural infrastructure in some areas; high costs and low application of inputs, and excessive dependence on rainfed agriculture. Mr. Speaker, Sir, to tackle these constraints the sector plan for agriculture provides a comprehensive strategy which includes, amongst others, improvement of agro business, value addition, market access, strengthening research; extension services and training, improving land use and crop development and enhancing accessibility of affordable inputs and credit. Funding these interventions will require"
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