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    "speaker_name": "Buuri, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mugambi Rindikiri",
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    "content": "The Principal Secretary should feel it for Kenyans. He is occupying that office to sort out a problem and not to delay. In actual fact, the Departmental Committee on Health should be held accountable for the failures of the Ministry. I should have expected Hon. (Dr.) Pukose, the Chairperson of the Committee on Health, to be here, but he seems not to be taking this matter seriously. I had a situation where a doctor referred a Kenyan from western Kenya to Uganda. Are we serious? This is a medical practitioner doing that. I would wish to know him. I need to ask Hon. (Dr.) Pukose to tell me the name of the doctor because he comes from western Kenya. It is a very serious thing. It is high time the National Government worked hand-in-hand with the county governments. The business of taking Kenyans lightly is long overdue. I thank the potential Governor of Bungoma for bringing this Motion. We will support it, pass it and it must be enacted. I share the sentiments of the proposer. I support this Bill and ask that within this Bill, we need to put a clause that the Government, through NHIF, should establish a referral unit in every sub-county. In Buuri, we have two sub-counties. We need two sub-county hospitals where we shall be referring our patients to, instead of referring them to private hospitals which is the norm there. This is done by doctors and we should not allow it. We have an issue where our ladies are forced to undergo caesarean sections that are done by unscrupulous practitioners against their will. Why? Because they make more money through that procedure. They force patients to accept to sign for caesarean section. We need to be mindful of our mothers. It is not the end of giving birth. You can imagine a mother undergoing caesarean section three to four times. I know people from Mombasa give birth four to five times. You can imagine what the ladies go through. We should avoid such things because we do not have in place systems of referrals. Therefore, I urge all Members to support this Bill. It should be enacted and implemented so that we can move forward in providing good healthcare to our citizens."
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