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    "id": 1169157,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Hargura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I would like to thank the petitioners from Uasin Gishu who happens to be affected persons because they are staff members. Health is a devolved function. Among the devolved functions, I believe health is the most important. This is because we know the importance of human health as compared to any other activity of the human being. Without being healthy, we cannot perform any other activity. It is an important function. Considering this Petition and Statement that we had earlier, we are experiencing challenges at the county level in implementing this function. Health involves several issues and the Petition covers most of them. It involves developing the necessary infrastructure for provision of health services right from the dispensaries at the local level. Additionally, we have the health centres at the sub county level, we have level four hospitals and at the county level, we have a referral level five hospital. That is the ideal set up of the infrastructure. After provision of the necessary buildings, the infrastructure requires proper equipping of those facilities. It requires proper staffing of the facilities with the relevant personnel at all levels and provision of medicines. Additionally, hospitals require ambulances to refer patients from one level to the other. We need to have all that in place to have a functioning health system."
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