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    "id": 1110263,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Farhiya",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Farhiya Ali Haji",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Bill. I also wish to thank my Senator for supporting his profession and Kenyans at large to make healthcare better in this country. Posting of interns to the national and county government health facilities encourages the people who are newly trained to practice whatever they have learned in those facilities. That will go a long way in terms of skill transfer. The welfare scheme for all health workers will bring motivation in ensuring that a health worker in Nairobi is paid the same as health worker in Wajir so that there is equity in how remuneration is done, and everybody feels as important as the other person. At the end of day, remuneration is supposed to be set according to certain scales and standards. If I am a gynaecologist trained in the University of Nairobi and serve in Nairobi County, I should earn the same as a gynaecologist working in Mombasa. When two doctors serve in Wajir, Garissa or Nairobi, they should be remunerated the same way because the services they are providing are the same and they have the same skills. Nobody can say that because you have a different skill, you be paid less. The other issue is how much the county can pay depends on the revenues one can generate as it has been rightfully put by Sen. Wetangula. The ability to collect revenue and the resource base for each county has never been factored in the revenue sharing formula. In future, it should be one of the criteria. If Nairobi County has a capacity to collect Kshs60 billion, they should get less revenues so that they work hard to collect it. I am of the view that because of historical factors, counties that can collect more revenue should get less sharable revenue. Then they will collect more and the others who do not have the base can get more because we are sharing one cake. The fact that this Bill is proposing that we should have an audit of healthcare workers, it will enhance their mapping. If there are so many people who are crowded here, the county governments can share. This Bill is able to facilitate inter-county transfers, transfers from the national Government to county governments, and vice versa. Together with that audit, the service delivery for the people of Kenya will be enhanced because there will be the ability to know who is where and transferability from one county to another in case of excess in one county."
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