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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang’-Nyong’o",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 193,
        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, what the hon. Member has said is very true. That commitment follows the World Health Organization (WHO) standards. We, as a Government, must adhere to it as much as possible. You will notice that I have physically been going around to see for myself the distances involved and whether the referral system that we are trying to devise can work. We have one major challenge - population concentration. In areas where the population is widely dispersed and is not concentrated in certain places, and where it might become both difficult and uneconomical to put up dispensaries which are the primary health facilities near the people, we may have to combine mobile clinics with dispensaries, so that the people can have access to those facilities reasonably. Secondly, we need to ensure that we locate our ambulances rationally, so that the people could have access to both primary health facilities and referral facilities. That is something that we are doing at the moment. As I said previously, we have just completed a base line survey to determine exactly what we have, and how we can go about filling the gaps. So, I would plead with the hon. Member that, as we get funds to implement that, we shall definitely rise up to the occasion. In the meantime, I must congratulate Members of Parliament who have built many dispensaries in the nation. They have reduced the problem that we have with distances. We should continue doing so and challenge the Government to equip those dispensaries as well as provide them with the necessary human resources."
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