{"id":1081815,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1081815/?format=json","text_counter":306,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Bondo, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Gideon Ochanda","speaker":{"id":1264,"legal_name":"Gideon Ochanda Ogolla","slug":"gideon-ochanda-ogolla"},"content":" I think Hon. Millie has accepted that there are costs. That is the bottom line. That is the principle that I was trying to bring around that there are costs; so it is not free. The thing that I wanted to bring out is the whole issue of data. If the chair of the committee may, at the point of responding to this, give us a proper data that is in before the committee... We have heard different figures here; in terms of the blood units we require per year as a country. That has been varying. It is has been varying from Hon. Duale’s 64,000 to Hon. Abdullswamad at 64,000. Now, it has gone to Hon. Kiarie’s 93,000. I think what the committee has is about 164,000 as at last year. So, when the Chair is responding, he needs to bring this data in a proper and correct way. The thing that I wanted to bring in is, the whole issue of blood transfusion, we are dealing with issues of standards. At the moment, we are talking…"}