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    "id": 1237916,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1237916/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kisumu East, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Shakeel Shabbir",
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": "understood that this is a Bill to develop policy. In the health sector and other sectors, bureaucracy is a very big riddle. If you leave the health care providers to make their own guidelines and regulations, that will never happen. I have an amendment before the Departmental Committee on Health to have Level 6 hospitals in every county. I have been the Chairman of the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital (JOOTRH) for twelve years and we paid all our workers and did everything in time. I have sent the proposal to the Committee to take JOOTRH to Level 6. The KNH and the MTRH should be exempted from the county bureaucracies and county mafia. I say this with great concern. When I was the Chairman of JOOTRH, we did very well. Unfortunately, we now have CEC members who are colluding with mafias. We cannot even access drugs. My proposal is that decentralisation of health to counties was not the wisest thing to do. We want the Level 6 hospitals to come back to the national Government. I strongly support this Bill. I also feel like those who are opposing it perhaps did not understand or look at it carefully. This is a development of policy guidelines to regulate referral of patients to health institutions."
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