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    "id": 1286184,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Methu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13581,
        "legal_name": "Methu John Muhia",
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    "content": "In the first nine months of own-source collection of Nyandarua County, we collected Kshs346 million. Out of this, Kshs156 million was collected from hospitals which denotes the fact that 45 per cent of all of our revenues are collected from the sick. It then makes sense that this money should be used to improve the health facilities from which this money has been collected. When we sweep this money to the County Revenue Fund (CRF), what would guarantee that this money shall be used again to acquire services, medical and nonmedical supplies for this particular health service and this money cannot be appropriated to be used in other different sources? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is for this reason that I am very convinced that we need to use this money. I am very persuaded by the reason given in Clause 8(b) of the Bill, that subject to applicable financial laws and regulations, we should ensure readily available financial resources for the purchase and acquisition of urgent goods and services at the respective health facilities. I need not belabour to explain why we need readily available funds and resources because you understand the way the architecture of our budgeting has been. It is only now that this administration has been very forthright in ensuring that money is remitted to the devolved units in time. Counties hospitals and health facilities cannot depend on the goodwill of the Government to get readily available resources and finances to ensure that we provide resources for the acquisition of goods that are very urgent. Health is not something that you can postpone. If you go to a hospital and you cannot get drugs, you cannot say that you will come and pick up the drugs after one or two weeks, just like we can wait for a road, or for provision of water and fertilizer. On drugs and health services, you cannot say that because you have not seen a doctor today you will wait until two or three weeks to see him. For this particular reason, we need readily available resources and finances at our health facilities. My final comment is that at the very lowest level of provision of services at the health centres and dispensaries, much of what is required, it is not very huge sums of money. The little that is collected is enough to sustain the running of these small health centres. I agree with my colleagues; we shall give our input so that we get a very good law. This is a well-thought-out Bill and I support it."
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