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    "id": 1075790,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "I want to hail the doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers who have put up a spirited discipline of service despite an infrastructure that is breaking down. About three weeks ago, I was informed that a perimeter wall collapsed and that messed up the sewage system. The main hospital in the county therefore did not have ablution facilities for outpatients. When someone comes to hospital with kipindupindu, then you ask yourself where they relieve themselves. Are they going to do it in the field and what is the impact of that on other patients? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the investments are not being seen on the ground. Workers are always striking because of delays in Exchequer releases. The PFM Act, which I am quite familiar with, allows certain borrowing for cash flow management. The counties that have been wise and consistent know that the cash flows from the National Treasury are erratic. Just the way you save for a rainy day with your personal finances, county governments have learnt that disbursements delay by two or three months. So they always keep a reserve to ensure that their most important workers do not go on strike. We have not had Kshs80 billion in the health, yet that is the most important sector. I urge Governor Awiti to take Kshs1billion in the last budget and put up a modern referral hospital then he can eat the rest. We do not care. We just want to see something tangible, because for over eight years, we have not seen anything productive or tangible in the health sector."
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