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    "id": 1286911,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Maanzo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2197,
        "legal_name": "Daniel Kitonga Maanzo",
        "slug": "daniel-kitonga-maanzo"
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for an opportunity to contribute to this very important Bill. I am looking forward to hearing what Sen. (Dr) Khalwale would say about this as a medical practitioner who is familiar with most of the things dealing with this Bill. As you can see, this it arose when COVID-19 pandemic struck us. The last record of containment of such a serious disease ran back into the 1920s. The country found itself in a panic mood. We were using everything possible to contain COVID-19 pandemic. One good method of preventing disease is through cleanliness and availability of clean water, which reduces diseases by more than 50 per cent. When there were sanitizers and hand washing promoted, hospitals were almost empty in country other than COVID- 19 patients. That goes back to the basis of this; first and foremost, that we need water in the country. That is what will stop typhoid outbreaks and other dangerous outbreaks such as Ebola, which kill doctors, health officers and ordinary patients. All that did not have a framework. Therefore, this Bill was developed to try to deal with that. Part IV on Management of Primary Healthcare Services reads as follows – “The Ministry responsible for Health shall, in the management of primary health care services – (a) Formulate, develop and disseminate primary health care policies, guidelines and other relevant frameworks.” You know under Schedule Four, health is devolved function. The Ministry should be handling the policy. In the whole of this Act, there is nothing about the financing of healthcare. So, that is left to the responsible Ministry. Up to now, health services, including money have never been devolved. There is so much held by the national Government. A lot of procurements, including medicine and everything is done by the national Government and the counties are left begging the CS responsible for health. There is such a chaotic manner of handling health services generally other than when you have an emergency such as the case of COVID-19. Therefore, there is a need to enact a law. Although we have gone back to the village and have defined that"
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