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    "id": 1056833,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Ochillo-Ayacko",
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    "content": "We sit here as part of Government. Government is public resources pooled together to strengthen and address the needs of the weak and the vulnerable and collective needs of all of us. If you look at our social and economic status in this country, we are all vulnerable. We may be privileged that we can afford it ourselves, but just look at your nuclear family and go beyond it. If you take your father, mother and cousins, do they have adequate insurance to meet their health needs? You can even look at your village. If you take the law of averages, we are all vulnerable and represent vulnerable people. If anybody falls sick and is a victim of one of these chronic diseases, that burden will fall on me, but I may be unable to meet it. I may be pretending to be a good politician, but if I cannot meet the needs of my immediate family, supporters and the people I represent, then I am losing focus. Since we are unable to meet those needs from our individual pockets, we must meet those needs from our collective public pockets. That is not asking too much. I would hate for anybody including myself to lose a loved one because we did not use this platform to represent them well or speak to issues that touch our people. There are many administrative details that will be part of this Motion. What kind of support should we give these people? This Motion is broad enough because it is not prescriptive. It suggests that we give them support, including stipend for food and other forms of support. Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) is a public hospital. It is only in Kisii where we have a referral hospital because we do not have a teaching and referral hospital in the southern part of Nyanza. There is none in Homa Bay and Migori. In Kisumu, we have Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital. We should know the number of experts for chronic diseases that we have there. Remember when you are in a doctor’s clinic, for a doctor to examine the trouble you have, it may require laboratory tests and other examinations. The doctor may have to talk to you for about 30 or 40 minutes. If there is only one doctor or oncologist and the queue has about 40 people in a day, and they can talk to each for 30 or 40 minutes, as a human being, of course they will dispense about seven hours in a day. Those are 14 people. What happens to the other people? As a country, we must get our priorities well. I am glad that we are prioritizing the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI), which will take additional resources to counties and wards. I believe when those resources are devolved to those areas, the focus will be on well-being. The first thing that addresses well-being is medical health. The second thing is what you eat and the quality. The third one is your economic and social status. All these must be put together. Overall, all these refer to well-being. Medical health is what enables you to be a robust productive person who is able to generate both income and taxes for the national Government and county governments. Therefore, it is important that the additional resources, which we hope will be devolved by the passage of the BBI will prioritise health in our counties. They should"
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