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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I hope that in the same spirit, you will save the three minutes that have been taken away because I had about five minutes to go. I was timing myself. You know I am usually keen on time. So, on that issue, I want to tell my senior that I am giving this information in context because we had the PBS earlier this year. In the PBS, the national Government retained over Kshs111 billion for healthcare and the counties only received about Kshs46 billion. That is why I am saying that I would rather push any function that we are creating here that will consume that money, including the council, that has been created under Clause 14. You can see from its functionality, it will utilise this money. I rather we push that money to go to the county. I just want to finish this in the next two minutes because of time. If you scan through the health issues in this county and Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale will tell you this, you can categorise this sector. Today if you go to outpatient and inpatient data in our hospitals and health facilities in the country, 35 per cent of it is infectious and communicable diseases. About 40 per cent are diseases caused by lifestyle and about 11 per cent is an emerging component of health complexity in this country, which I will call accidents and injuries, and depression. If you look further, we have failing health, which people have talked about more, but then we have only about five per cent that follows either--- There is something called the placebo effect in health. People feel better when somebody talks to them at the grassroots level or they go to institutions that give them an environment where they feel better. All this cannot happen when you form another monster called a council or a national body that will consume money of this country. Hypothesising and talking about some ideas fed by some data when you could be using that money to go to the grassroots level and invest in proper healthcare intervention. That is why as I finish, I invite Members to let us keenly interact with Clause 13 of this Bill with regard to the management element. Let us also interact keenly with Clause 14. We should adjust these two clauses to ensure that they can have the national Government mainstream these functions into the counties by making sure that money goes back to governors to execute---"
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