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    "id": 113770,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/113770/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang’-Nyong’o",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Medical Services",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 193,
        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
        "slug": "peter-nyongo"
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to answer. The process of upgrading a health centre to a sub-district hospital takes four steps as follows: one, a health centre reaches the specified threshold of a catchment population of 100,000 people as set out in the norms and standards of the health sector. Two, a health centre acquires the requisite infrastructure as per the norms and standards of the health sector. Three, the District Development Committee passes a resolution that the health centre be upgraded to a sub-district hospital and forwards the minutes to my Ministry through the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, under whose mandate health centres currently fall. Four, my Ministry then gazettes the facility as a sub-district hospital. Mr. Speaker, Sir, presently, none of the three health centres meet the requirement for gazettement as sub-district hospitals. The Ministry will consider upgrading them to sub-district hospitals when they meet the requirements. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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