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    "id": 1034826,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Kiarie Waweru",
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    "content": "It is saddening. It is pathetic. It is immoral that the protection of our frontline workers - being the medical caregivers - is an afterthought. The protection of doctors cannot be an afterthought. I was having a conversation with the very esteemed Hon. (Dr.) Nyikal and he reminded me that one doctor in this country serves over 16,000 patients. When we lose a doctor, we are not only talking of the name of one individual, maybe a Dr. Were, passing on. We are talking about a Kenyan who is offering a service to 16,000 people out there. Over and above that, it takes a lot of investment to train a single doctor. This country invests in that one individual all the way up to their level of specialisation. For us to imagine that it can be an afterthought to protect a medical worker in this country means that we have our priorities upside down. The truth of the matter is that it is becoming very clear, finally, that corruption kills. This is a direct link - a bold thick line not a dotted line - between corruption and deaths. We were expecting that the Departmental Committee on Health would go into the Ministry of Health, Afya House and KEMSA and lift the veil so that we know who the people who took away Kshs43 billion are. The 64 pages of this Report that we have received tell us that Kshs43 billion disappeared with the KEMSA board and with the Principal Secretary (PS) of the Ministry of Health. We want 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."
}