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    "id": 1081704,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1081704/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Owen Yaa Baya",
        "slug": "owen-yaa-baya"
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. It is a pleasure to contribute to this Bill. I had done a similar Bill, but I had to give the Committee the opportunity to do it. That notwithstanding, this Bill is long overdue. This country has for many years lost people because of lack of blood. I would like to point a case in which we lost a very new assistant county commissioner in Kilifi because of pregnancy and blood related issues. When she was admitted at the Kilifi County Hospital, she had a baby and then she lost a lot of blood. We had to get blood from Mombasa. A car had to leave the Kilifi County Hospital, drive to Mombasa, get blood and by the time they got to Mombasa, there was a problem and when they arrived back in Kilifi, the young lady had died. We need to start devolving blood transfusion centres and blood centres to the counties. Every county hospital or a referral hospital should have a centre. These centres should connect blood processes and do all these things. The question is who will regulate all the services. When we have the blood transfusion service, they will manage all of these because the current situation is that we have blood transfusion offices who are only managing six centres in the whole country. It makes it very difficult to ensure that we have blood in every level of hospital in this country."
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