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    "id": 1147341,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Yatta, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Charles Kilonzo",
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        "legal_name": "Charles Mutavi Kilonzo",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I agree with the previous speaker. I think this is a very wrong approach. The key business of this House is to legislate. What we are saying here is that let us have a dispensary. The next time we will want to make it a Level 3 or 4 hospital. It is a totally wrong approach. We have enough facilities. The private sector has done well in healthcare. We already have an insurance cover. It is one thing to ask the healthcare providers to come and lease a space within Parliament and provide their services. It is another thing to say you want to establish a healthcare unit. So the Committee needs to rethink this. What would be the reaction of the public? It will be that once we get elected we cannot use the same facilities being used by the public who elect us. We really need to rethink. We should be fighting for those public facilities to be improved to the level whereby a Member of Parliament or anybody can use them whether it is clinics by the local authority or the Kenyatta National Hospital under the national Government. That should be the approach. However, this idea of let us have our own facility because you do not want to mix with the public or, as my colleague says, let us recruit or upgrade; I think is a totally wrong approach. I really plead with the Committee to rethink. It is one thing to have a gym. It is another to say you want to open a health unit. It is basically saying in a soft way you want to open a hospital at the end of the day."
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