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    "id": 1081696,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1081696/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tongaren, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Eseli Simiyu",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 141,
        "legal_name": "David Eseli Simiyu",
        "slug": "david-eseli"
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    "content": "there are all sorts of private hospitals cropping up. We are privatising amidst the poverty in the country. So, the poor are no longer affording healthcare. A poor person falling sick and ending up in private or even a public hospital, it means bankruptcy for the family for the rest of its life. If we cannot do the right thing with blood transfusion, we are condemning the majority of Kenyans to live a life of penury. You will find that in some places, the kind of charges that are put on the whole blood transfusion are unbelievable. When you want blood components, you are talking of stratospheric kind of prices that these people are charged yet we have a public responsibility to ensure that this service is available and it is responsive to the needs. Once we set up a blood donor service properly, it will also mean that there is better training for the people that work in the blood transfusion services. We will allocate resources to the blood transfusion services and make it better. If we continue the way we are doing, and some people wanted to lump it together with other transplant tissues, then we will be heading for trouble."
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