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    "id": 1081796,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "our blood is going to our neighbouring countries, he must say which country, at what time and hold the public officials under his watch to account. In my opinion, the Committee should look farther and propose ways of ensuring there is integrity by public officers who shall sit in the management of the Kenya National Blood Transfusion Service. We must not allow cartels to siphon blood donated by Kenyans and sell it to other countries according to the CS, this Bill must find a way of addressing this. How do we deal with public officials who have been given the responsibility and custody to manage our national blood banks, if there is foul play? We are setting the Kenya National Blood Transfusion Service in order to create a national blood bank. So, we must have regulation of blood donation. I have heard many Hon. Members talking about counties and here we must be serious. This is because since we devolved, apart from very few counties which I can mention like Kakamega and Makueni, in the rest of the counties, healthcare has collapsed at the Level 5 hospitals. You are talking about taking national blood labs… I will give you an example, the Kenya Red Cross brought a modern blood bank in Garissa, but they did not run it and today it is full of cobwebs and the refrigerators are not working. Healthcare has collapsed and we must have a discussion. In fact, this country instead of discussing this animal called BBI, should have a three-month discussion on the success and failures of devolution because we are going towards 10 years. You have seen how doctors are recruited based on nepotism and bias. Before devolution there was a doctor called Musa a Nubian surgeon in Garissa Provincial General Hospital (PGH). Before him all the other heads of that hospital were non-locals. But with the advent of devolution, you will find a nurse supervising a medical officer. The Kenya National Blood Transfusion Centre is a function of the national Government. Read the Schedule, it is a policy decision and cannot go to counties. I beg to support."
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