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    "speaker_name": "Emuhaya, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Omboko Milemba",
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    "content": "it. This CT scanning is done at every level. For every CT scan, the patient pays about Ksh7,000 to Ksh10,000. They are paid all through the way. This Bill is trying to address that. Sharing of high-level technical medical machines is also achieved. We realise economies of scale in terms of our medical equipment. Once we have techno-equipment at the Kenyatta National Hospital, it can also serve people at different levels in different counties and therefore, the cost is shared. I also see further advantages of this Bill. How often do we dream we should get to high-end hospitals like the Nairobi Hospital, Kenyatta National Hospital and other hospitals? This means that with this shared information, we can even share doctors and their advice and consultancy from the very high to the lower end. This will improve and bring down the cost of healthcare in this country. However, as we do all this in this Bill, we must ensure that health centres and hospitals are equipped. Yesterday, I was proud when I saw Community Health Promoters (CHPs), whom I would soon want to call community health workers. That is because they will be a crucial and integral part of the healthcare system in this country. However, that is a matter for another day. We need to uphold them to a working level and not just be volunteers or promoters. They have several pieces of equipment that will keep data, including e-waste, M-Health, and M-Mobile. However, you may realise that those same gadgets are not in hospitals and health facilities we have around the country. This must go concurrently with improving not only medical equipment in hospitals, but also human resources so that hospitals become centres where those ground-level health workers called health promoters will operate from and become their centres of operation. Hon. Speaker, data protection has been spoken about as an essential aspect of this Bill - to protect the data of people who will have gone through the system, and how to dispose of waste in terms of data that will have gone into the system. Further, I also see it as an advantage. Somebody has spoken about this. It must have been one of the Hon. Members. The research component that has been brought to bear by this Bill is very good because information will be there. Therefore, we will be able to discern the most prevalent diseases in this country and new diseases that enter the system, the country and the health sector, and take interventions that will handle it. This is very good. It will promote research. When doing the Third Reading, the Hon. Chair, Hon. Pukose, who is up here with me, will need to see how we can also use the collected data to give projections and enhance research on the most prevalent diseases in this country, and undertake the required mitigation to deal with them moving forward. Prevalently and largely, this is a good Bill that takes our health sector to another level. It is a blockbuster in demystifying health issues and creating space within hospitals where we have very many files that keep equipment. We had this in several sectors. It is now being removed so that we do not have many files. How many times are people in villages told to go and buy books? I know most of you come from those areas where you are asked to buy a book before starting treatment. You must buy books each time you approach a hospital simply because we are not digitised. This is a blockbuster in making this sector more efficient to assist Kenyans. With those very few remarks, I support the Bill."
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