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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Onyonka",
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    "content": "how their funds are going to be paid to and distributed online according to the positions which are going to be created. I also want to support my brother, Sen. Wambua. He raised the issue of churches. I want to add that in that list, we must also include the Muslim Community because healthcare is a matter that deals with the very sensitive issue of reproductive health. It is a matter that we must interrogate and agree on, as a Senate. If it is going to be handled at the local level, then the local churches and the local Mosques and religious organizations play a role. The fact that as they are getting data, distributing this information, participating in providing the necessary information that they have to, they must be part and parcel of the team that is going to sit down and discuss on the matters that are very sensitive in terms of reproductive health and the privacy of the individuals’ health conditions and the data that we are going to keep that is going to be held by these committees. Article 16(3)(a) states that the county primary healthcare advisory committee in each county shall perform the functions of oversight. That cannot take place. I hope that my colleagues in this House are aware that there is a ruling that has come from the High Court which says that the county government shall have no responsibility whatsoever in conducting oversight, whether it is on healthcare matters, matters pertaining to outstanding issue of pending bills or a matter of how the expenditure is used. It is only the Auditor General’s Office who will have that responsibility. I would want that to be stated there very clearly because it is important that we leave the independent bodies that we have to participate and make sure that we get the results that we need. Mr. Speaker, Sir, there is an issue which I saw, and I think this could have been an oversight by default; where it states that one of the primary workers who is going to come to the county government and be given the responsibility of serving as one of the healthcare workers of this place must have lived in the local community for a period of five years. If a lady gets married into an area in a period of one year and she is a healthcare worker who was working in Malindi for the last seven years, then how do you discriminate against her because she has not lived in that area for five years? That might have come in by default. It is a small matter that needs to be followed up. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the last one says that members who are going to be in the primary healthcare team at the county level should be five. I wish to point out to the Senate Majority Leader and Committee Members about this number and I will give an example. There are areas with five sub-counties. Kisii County has nine sub-counties. If you tell me members of this committee need to be five, then you are creating a problem. We all know how our country is. I suggest that the team gets a sub-county leader or a criterion that can work. To a large extent, this is a good Bill and we should fine tune it. I also inform the Senate Majority Leader that this Bill makes a recommendation that the Cabinet Secretary and his team in Nairobi will be the ones engaging in this issue, advising downwards in a cascading manner to the county governments. It is not going to be easy to run this outfit"
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