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    "id": 1235869,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Githunguri, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gathoni Wamuchomba",
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    "content": "fundraising ceremonies and other functions raising money to support patients to go to facilities abroad for treatment. Since the chief doctor has referred a patient, then the patient has to go to that facility. We have become slaves. We have bills to pay, but we cannot afford. We need to have a system in place so that before a doctor or a medical practitioner refers a patient, due diligence on whether the patient can afford to pay for the services is done. At times, some practitioners refer patients to facilities because they have interest there, but do not care whether the patient can afford or not. This is very important and we need to come up with a clear referral system. Hon. Temporary Speaker, we have patients who are referred to Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) from Githunguri, but they cannot access an ambulance that is well equipped. As leaders, we normally receive calls that a patient has been referred to KNH, but there is no oxygenated ambulance or quality facilities that are needed for that referral or emergency to be effected. I wonder whether doctors, when referring patients, seek to know if there is a standby ambulance that can be used. We have even lost lives on the roads as we transfer patients and yet, we could have saved them by making sure that we provide the required intervention. Some patients have died at lounges of hospitals as their referral documents are being processed! Hon. Temporary Speaker, I recently had a case in Kiambu Hospital where a patient died in the waiting room. The patient was made to wait as nurses, health assistants and technicians prepared documents to effect a referral. We need a clear step-by-step guideline on what is supposed to be done for both out-bound and in-bound patients."
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