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    "id": 1034874,
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    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) James Nyikal",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to speak to this Motion. I want to thank Hon. Kioni for the amendment that has helped us to direct actions. I feel vindicated; today, as I heard many people speaking, I have a feeling that if they were with me as we were listening to the health workers, they would have cried with me. When we hear the number of deaths every day, we are losing people with families. They are not gunny bags that we are counting. They are leaving children, wives and husbands behind. We move on and those that we have trained and mandated to help those who are dying are also dying. To many of us here, the healthcare workers dying might just be numbers, but to me they are people I know; some were my students, colleagues and a few were my teachers. Hon. Jude Were Omollo is dead, but has not been buried. He was amongst the first three people who started kidney dialysis that everybody is talking about. He is now gone but luckily, he was teaching and so he has trained some people. As a country and leaders, as we see numbers, there are people behind them and feel for them. If we do not feel for them, we will make very bad decisions. We went through the process as a Committee and I want to state that people are mad at what happened at KEMSA and the Ministry of Health with the companies that conducted shoddy businesses. It was very disappointing and annoying. In our case, after we went through that and felt the anger, the health workers came and told us what was happening, we could directly link it to what we saw. It is the meeting where we cried that gave rise to Recommendation No. 30 onwards. I believe our feeling was not in vain. These recommendations touch on what should be done for people who are suffering. The other recommendations are looking at systems and what should be done to people involved, either jailed or fired. Even if we jail and fire them, they will still be alive. If we implement these recommendations, we are going to save people."
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