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    "id": 1338204,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1338204/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Busia County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Catherine Omanyo",
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    "content": "If a pregnant woman is to be transferred from a better facility to the village ones, she may prematurely give birth or abort. So, if these small health facilities are well managed, their services will move to the real Wanjikus in the villages and we will be better people in our society. If we cannot have our basic health sector working, then it means that we will have an unhealthy society that cannot be productive. At the county level, medicine and basic things like gloves are scarce in most hospitals. If these things are available, health services will be improved and our people will not be worried any more. People will be encouraged to pay if health services will be available; they will not feel the pain of paying. Today, you can sell a plot of land and still not afford to get a doctor in a health facility. If there will be money for our health facilities, our doctors will be attracted to work in the counties and they will not be looking forward to go abroad to offer their services there. They will be happy to treat people at home because there will be payment. We will not have doctors’ strikes all the time. The gap between the rich and the poor will… Sometimes, when you do not have money and you are sick, you pray and hope that the disease will disappear because you do not have money. Today, if you go to any health facility you have to pay money first before you are treated. However, with this kind of arrangement, you will be treated first then other requirements will follow. So, I support the Bill and everybody else should support it."
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