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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Seneta",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mary Yiane Senata",
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    "content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, from the outset, I would like to congratulate Sen. Iman for bringing such a Statement concerning the people of Garissa County. That is a replica of what is happening in all our counties. Last week, we had a crisis of human-wildlife conflict in Kajiado. During that incident, women and some men who were doing a peaceful demonstration were shot and killed. Some of them were rushed to a certain dispensary, which I visited yesterday. The only source of borehole water had broken down a year ago. Up to date, the dispensary buys water for use. The dispensary has no drugs and some equipment to attend to emergency cases of such kind. The health centre is along Mombasa Road, which is busy and in a busy town, but it has no water, drugs and equipment for theatre and other essential items. The situation applies to many health facilities in our counties. Many health facilities such as dispensaries, health centres and county referral hospitals are in deplorable conditions. They do not have drugs, personnel and water. Some lack electricity and other important facilities that should be in place to give services to the citizens. This is a case that this House should look at. I am the Vice Chairperson of the Committee on Health. What we need is an Implementation Committee in place immediately, so that some of the Petitions, Statements and Reports that have been tabled in this House are followed up to make sure that the resolutions of this House are implemented. We have had a number of petitions and done quite number of visits. We have also dealt with a number of Statements and wrote reports. All we need is implementation on the said reports. This is an important case that we should investigate and come up with a report to be implemented by the next Senate. God willing, in case any of these Members seated here come back, they should ensure that we have an Implementation Committee in place immediately to start following up on resolutions of this House, so that they can be corrected. Otherwise, as many of my colleagues have said, provision of health services should be taken back to the national Government because counties have failed in this particular important function. Many of our health facilities have not been opened since the inception of devolution. Madam Deputy Speaker, we have several health facilities that were done by the African Development Bank (ADB). In my County of Kajiado, we have around 50 or 84 health facilities that were done by ADB before devolution came into place. Those facilities have not even been operationalised up to date. Some have not been completed and are just lying idle unopened. Also, those that have been done through the National Government-Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF) have not been opened nor operationalised by the governors and the county government."
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