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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": "In our amendment, what we should be talking about is not how referrals are done by doctors but whether I get the treatment or admittance at the place I have been referred to. If you give the Ministry of Health the power to decide how and when people will travel to other countries, you will finish Kenyans. Even for us as Members of Parliament, our constituents just travel on their own only to inform us once they have arrived because it is a very personal thing. What we should be talking about is how to look at the cost. It has become very expensive. We may be arguing and laughing here, as colleagues in Parliament, about the fee charged to ordinary Kenyans for treatment but is there a day we shall talk about prevention. It is like it is okay for people to get sick and we should have very interesting hospitals all over yet nobody comes to this House to talk about a mechanism of prevention. There is a hospital in Westlands called ‘Jalaram’, which is very modest. When you walk in, you will find Kenyans from all walks of life, including Asians, being treated there. They will charge you a reasonable price that you will be left wondering what is happening in these other hospitals where Kenyans go for treatment. I know many Kenyans do not know about it, but it has been in existence for roughly three to four years. It is an outpatient hospital but the charges there for all services, including imaging and MRIs, are very affordable until you wonder what the difference is."
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