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    "id": 1286118,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Thang’wa",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. This Bill is bringing about devolving of the budget making process. Every hospital will have an opportunity to budget for what they want and they will also have an opportunity even to raise monies from the well-wishers. Mr. Speaker, Sir, today, as a Senator, if you want to give money to your dispensary, maybe you want them to use it in a certain way, that money will have to go to the county, then the county will have to bring it back. However, with this, if you give Kshs100,000 as a donation to a small dispensary, that money will go to the account and that dispensary will be able to do something that they always wanted to do. Each facility will have an account and this account will have the allocation from the county government; it will have the revenue, for example if that dispensary has a coffee farm and they are making money so that money will go to that account. They will have to receive donations, even harambees. We are giving these small health centres an opportunity to come up with new ways of raising funds so that they can develop their facilities. Sen. Osotsi and I are co-sponsoring a Bill called Ward Equitable Development Bill; the same to devolve funds further to the ward level. This is exactly what this Bill is doing. So, I encourage him to relook into what he had said before and support this Bill. This Bill is also restraining governors from micromanaging the running of hospitals. If you have a team that is running a hospital, you do not require to call a governor. For example, in my county - I can tell you this because I do know what happens there - you will find the governor micromanaging even which car is to be fueled by asking the driver to take a picture of the fuel pump and the car dash-board and take it to the governor to see whether that is what he did. However, if there was a small committee in those hospitals, they would be able to do their work without getting worried about what the governor thinks or what the governor will do. The Chief Officer is the accounting officer but he has been given power by this law to authorize the medical superintendent and administrator in charge to run the affairs of the hospital. This Bill will bring about competition on prudent use of resources. A hospital will have to showcase what they do with their little resources and that means that there will be competition among the medical superintendents of certain hospital. This means that service delivery will be rendered very well, precisely, efficiently and on time. This Bill is bringing a sense of ownership because every ward will take care of their hospitals without interruption from the headquarters or from wherever. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do support."
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