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    "id": 1216407,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to support the Statement by Sen. Cherarkey that touches on clinicians in our health sector, not the one at the Kenya International Convention Centre (KICC). I do not know about it. Mr. Speaker, Sir, you have been a Governor. Therefore, you know the excitement the people we represent in our counties had when devolution brought in health as a service that is devolved. The largest population in this country lives in mashinani . Therefore, when Sen. Cherarkey brings an issue that touches on clinical officers, it excites me to rise up, make a comment and support. There is an adage that says that a healthy nation is a working nation. A working nation is a wealthy nation. For us to have a working nation, we have to ensure that the health of our people is taken care of. If you peek at statistics, we are staring at a crisis. I serve in the Senate Committee on Health. Last month, we got a report that in January alone 50 trained nurses left Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) for greener pastures in the United States of America (USA), simply because they are getting better pay on the other side of the Atlantic. This is a matter that should catch the attention of the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC). Last year, I spoke of the gazette notice that was released by the SRC that addressed increase of allowances and perks for people in higher levels, that is, commissioners, Cabinet Secretaries and the President. However, there was nothing that touched on the health sector in this country. That is not right. If this trend continues, we will wake up one day and find that we have no clinicians or nurses and it will trigger a big crisis. I am making a very passionate appeal to the SRC. I saw that the supplementary budget has a proposal to give the national Government an additional Kshs92 billion to meet daily expenditure and not development. I hope that will also address salaries for this cadre of Kenyans. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we know the President has his prerogative to appoint 23 Cabinet Administrative Secretaries (CAS) and that is okay. However, the people that should get our attention are the clinicians. We moved around and that time we knew were getting the Presidency. We had Dr. Matiang’i and the State on our side. We assured Kenyans that once we came into power, they would have Kshs6,000 in their pockets, but we lost. Now, the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) is in Government. Remember you promised the people of Kenya that you would build the economy from the bottom-up. That is the message you delivered to Kenyans."
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