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    "id": 1371283,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mariam Omar",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity. I stand to add my voice to this Report. I am the Vice-Chairperson of the Committee on Health. We visited most of the county hospitals and made recommendations. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the deaths of Baby Travis, Mr. Otieno and Ms. Anyango were due to negligence by doctors. If our doctors took those cases seriously, they would have saved their lives. The emergency care system in our country is in a poor state. When someone is taken to hospital in an emergency condition, the hospital prioritizes money. One has to pay a deposit before they are attended to. Pursuant to Section 112(1) of the Health Act, emergency medical service is a right. You have to attend to a patient in a medical emergency immediately without asking for a deposit. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Committee also recommends that we have to legalize licensing of ambulances. Most patients die in local hospitals because there are no emergency ambulances on standby. In this report, we have also noted that there is a shortage of nurses. There are so many trained nurses who are not employed yet the county government and the national Government are not employing nurses. If you go to some of our public hospitals, the ratio of nurses to patients is one nurse to 20 patients. This report has recommended that we have to change how our county and national hospitals are managed, so that our people can get proper service delivery. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I support."
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