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    "id": 1146633,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "An important point that the Committee has noted is the civil registration. We need to harmonize registration. We need to use biometrics and it will be easy to identify. If the biometric statistics had been synchronized and linked to the civil registration it would have been easier to identify Prof. Ken Walibora. Most families who lose their loved ones go to police stations and mortuaries but do not positively identify their kins. Mostly, you will find that their loved ones have been admitted in hospital and by the time the accident happened the individual had not been carrying identification documents. The hospitals are hard pressed. I agree that we must improve on linkable civil registration. The Huduma Number, was supposed to be issued and synchronized. I saw our colleague in the National Assembly Speaker, Hon. Justin Muturi, has returned some of those issues for public participation. I hope that when those bills come to the Senate, we shall also put in the same effort. Allow me to talk about the issue of emergency and ICU services. Mostly, when accidents happen many people survive. However, how they are handled up to the time of recovery or death is a big challenge. The medical leasing program was very important for our counties to be able to access medical facilities including the ICU, Dialysis machines and many others that were being leased to the county governments. Therefore, we need to improve ICU Service provision in the counties. Every county should at least at minimum have five to ten ICU beds to ensure that when emergencies happen our people can get the necessary medical attention. On operationalizing of the Health Act, 2017 and Health Policy 2019. This is a straight forward matter. Somebody in the MOH is sleeping on the job. This Bill was passed in 2017. Why does the MOH not want to operationalize the Health Act, 2017 and the Emergency report, Health Policy, 2019? Someone must be held accountable. As this report comes from the MOH, they must tell us who was preventing this policy and the law from being operationalized. Somebody must be sleeping on the job. I hope that in the next three months, before this House lapses, we should be given clear answers in the next Senate. This is an important law; ours is to make the laws and the Executive must implement them. They do not have an option. They cannot cherry-pick the laws we pass here. They cannot implement the laws that favor them and not implement those that do not. We want to ask the Executive to fully implement the laws because we are a lawmaking body and they do not have an option of cherry picking what we are giving. On the issue of public awareness, I can clearly state that most Kenyans do not have basic knowledge of first aid. If anybody was to collapse in this Chamber, I highly doubt that a number of us would know what to do. We need to ensure that we train and create public awareness. Whenever an accident happens people mishandle that individual until they die. Most people die not because of the accident but the management of that person. If the people who took Prof. Ken Walibora to the hospital knew how to handle him and how to do some first aid, maybe he could have survived. All in all, these are good recommendations. I thank the Committee for going beyond the call of duty and bringing a report that we can use as a reference point. A precedent in this House to make sure that such deaths do not occur."
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