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    "id": 12913,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/12913/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang’-Nyong’o",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Medical Services",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 193,
        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
        "slug": "peter-nyongo"
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, but that does not alter the fact that we need the Government to put substantial funds in health delivery. We have prepared a strategic plan, which we will bring to the House also as a Bill, on what we need in the next five years to fund the health sector. The estimate we have, if we have really to bring our health sector to proper standards of care delivery, as required by the Constitution and demanded by the counties--- Within the next five years we must invest Kshs85 billion in the health sector. That is the minimum we need. If you divide Kshs85 billion by 5, that is about Kshs17 billion every year. That is the amount of money we need in the health sector, and nothing less. That is why, today, we have only five oncologists and few nephrologists and histologists in the Government. You cannot believe that we actually have very few gynecologists in the public sector. That is because we have not been training them. We must train because our people also get opportunities to work elsewhere. Some retire and others also pass on. So, we must continue training especially at the higher levels, so that we can have proper human resources, particularly, in our provincial and referral facilities."
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