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    "id": 1371268,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Okenyuri",
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    "content": "following- the death of Edward Otieno Onyango on 12th September, 2022 at Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital due to alleged medical negligence, the death of the Late Maureen Anyango on 7th September, 2022 due to alleged medical negligence at Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital and finally, the circumstances that led to the death of the Late Master Travis Maina on 11th October, 2022 at the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH). Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, thank you for prioritising this Motion. We were scared we were going to run out of time. Thank you for considering that especially for our committee. I would want to commend the work that went in more so from the Committee. I am doing this on behalf of the Chairperson of this Committee, Sen. Mandago. If you remember, some of these cases were as a result of a Statement that had been brought forward to the House by Sen. Kibwana. As a result of this Statement, the Committee went ahead to conduct investigations of the three serious cases. While the Committee conducted investigations on these three cases, there were very sad narrations from the victims’ families and the responses we were getting from whoever was around. Let us look at an instance of Edward Otieno Onyango who was a boda boda rider. By the time Edward was getting to hospital, he was left lying on the floor for several hours. When we conducted our investigations, the facility informed us that Edward had refused to sign consent. As a result of that aspect, by the time Edward was going to get treatment from the facility, he had already lost his life. In a country where we should be providing emergency care to such people--- A normal boda boda rider in this country is someone who is tarmacking to put food on the table. The next time they are getting an accident, ignoring giving them special attention is a cause for concern. I hope the respective Ministry that is going to look at this will crack the whip on such rogue facilities and individuals who become negligent. We are losing several lives which we should not have lost otherwise. If you look at the case of the Late Maureen Anyango, who was 28 years old, - I am slightly older than the late - she had a twin pregnancy. By the time attention was given to her, it was too late. This is another issue of medical negligence that we are seeing. In a country where reproductive healthcare should be a matter of key concern, we need not lose more mothers who are giving birth to life. Decisions we, as a House, make on such issues, especially the health sector, are matters of life and death. We need to be careful in any other instances that rise and the decisions we eventually make. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, finally, the saddest of all was the case of Master Travis Maina. This was a sad report because we went to the extent of seeking more information from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI). DCI gave us our report, we had narrations from the family and the hospital facility. Remember the case of the baby who had a fork jembe stuck in the head? This was it. We sadly lost this baby because for more than eight hours, the baby had not even been taken for critical care. In as much as the doctors in KNH tried to give explanations to do with issues of neurosurgery, I still could not get it. The Chief Executive Officer"
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