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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Makueni, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Suzanne Kiamba",
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    "content": "our people in this country. As other Members have said, we realise that the problem we have in this country has nothing to do with adding additional referrals. It is a situation where our referral and health systems are not working, right from the health worker. At the basic level of the health worker, he/she is supposed to educate the citizens to avoid situations where they get sick because of ineffective diet or mismanagement of their diet. That area is wanting, because as it is today, our health workers are volunteers. And we have not even checked their knowledge levels. Therefore, right from the community level, we have a system that is not working to the expected levels. Why would we think of adding another layer of bureaucracy to a referral system that is not delivering the health services that we expect in this country? It is not only retrogressive, but also a way of punishing our citizens. The biggest problem we have in our health sector, which most of the Members have commented on, is the issue of inadequate capacity right from the health workers to most referral hospitals in this country. It will be of value if we direct efforts to correcting what is not working as opposed to having an additional policy that limits the few of us who have money to take our people away for treatment. As Members of this House, who make decisions on behalf of those we represent, we should be apologetic because we have a health system that we have promoted for years that cannot deliver the basic services that our people deserve."
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