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    "id": 1286901,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Onyonka",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Richard Momoima Onyonka",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, fundamentally, this Bill is actually good but there is the 30 per cent that we must look at and interrogate because that is our responsibility. I have been going through this Bill and looking at it in bits and pieces and one of the issues that has come to my mind and is very clear - and I want to reiterate what my brother, Sen. Mungatana raised - that we are creating another public behemoth of leaders in the Ministry of Health (MoH). We are going to have board after board. If you look at it, my interpretation is that you are going to have three layers of the team that is going to manage this primary health sector. I would want the Majority Leader to later explain this to me. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the second issue that I am very sensitive about is the issue of responsibility of the county governments. The truth is that health has been devolved to the county governments. The feeling I have is that we are removing the responsibilities and powers of the county governments and taking them back to the national Government. There is a very deliberate decision that is being made where the national team that is going to be managing the primary healthcare sector at the county level will have to be the ones to be consulted. That is the one that looks at the data and the one that handles policy and funds. Mr. Speaker, Sir, given what has happened in the last 12 years, as we have been going through our devolution, the truth is that county governments have not done very well themselves. So, I would like to request the committees that are going to responsible over this to deliberately sit down and make sure that the weighty and more loaded responsibility of managing this sector is handled by the county primary healthcare advisory committee. This committee is basically meant to handle what is happening in the county government, how these primary healthcare employees are going to be paid and"
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