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    "id": 1081701,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1081701/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "North Imenti, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Rahim Dawood",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2572,
        "legal_name": "Abdul Rahim Dawood",
        "slug": "abdul-rahim-dawood"
    },
    "content": "has happened is that we are still being told from Independence, we only have six units in the country for blood donation. In the year 2007/2008, a bus from Loreto overturned near Suboiga in Meru and we lost about three girls and some lost their limbs. At that time, I was in the council and I tried to arrange to get blood for them. I had to call Embu and Nyeri because that is the closest we could get blood from. You can imagine the anguish the parents were in because we could not get blood for their children for them to be operated on. That should be a matter of the past. If we are talking about a healthy Kenya and a healthy future for our people, we need to allocate money for this. We need a budget for blood transfusion units. Hon. Speaker, if blood get spoilt, it can still be used for plasma and other things. So, we need to urgently pass this Bill and see how we can establish these centres in every county. We should even rope in county governments to allocate some money and even the facilities because we cannot just be saying that we will establish the units when the equipment and the personnel are not there. We need to go out and not just be waiting for the Kenya Red Cross to arrange for blood drives for us to collect blood. As a country, we need to have a good programme. When I studied oversees, we used to have a donation card. We need to encourage something similar in Kenya. If you have a donor card, you can be called and told when they are due to give blood. That is the way to go."
}