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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Thang'wa",
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    "content": "all the way to Thika Level 5 Hospital, but they did not get assistance from the hospital and that is why they were referred to the Kenyatta National Hospital. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is sad that the drafters of the Constitution while dividing or talking about the functions that were to be devolved, saw health as one of those functions that they would entrust the governors or the counties with. They refused to devolve education, but agreed to devolve health. If they could not trust the governors with education, I do not know why they decided to trust them with our health. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this is a discussion that we should have as a country. Our people are suffering when it comes to health matters at the county levels. In Kiambu County, I like giving examples of home because that is where my people are crying. You might not find medicine when they are needed in the hospitals, especially Thika Level 5, Kiambu Hospital and Igegania Hospital. They are rationing gloves in the maternity wards. If a woman comes to deliver, the nurses do not have gloves because they delivered about 4 or 5 women more than what they expected. Nurses are forced to either wash the gloves or reuse them as they are. It is a sad affair. Why is all this happening? It is because governors do not understand that health facilities should also be run as mini-counties. This means that every money should be available in every hospital. There should be a revolving fund in every hospital. The managing nurses who work in those hospitals are the accounting officers who should have imprests all the time. If there is an emergency on pharmaceuticals, gloves, blades or even food for the nurses, they can buy. In some hospitals in Kiambu County, the patients are advised to carry their own food when they are going to be admitted to the hospital. The reason this is done is because they are not buying food for the patients. Somebody sat down somewhere and instead of giving the hospital some imprest to buy tomatoes and cabbage when they need, they decided to give the contract to one person in the whole county. Such suppliers bring you tomatoes worth Kshs100,000 at once. How are the hospitals expected to keep perishable vegetable? In this report, they say such bodies should investigate. I call on these bodies to not just investigate these matters, but also investigate every hospital because our people are not getting justice when they go there. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Baby Travis could have been saved, but ambulances were not available in Kiambu County. You are told the ambulance does not have fuel. The Managing nurse cannot fuel an ambulance because she has to call the governor to authorise for an ambulance to be fuelled to take a child to the hospital. It is sad. Our governors are micromanaging the hospitals and yet we have nurses, Chief Officers, Clinical Officers and County Executive Committee Members (CECMs) who are learned. They are micromanaging everything. It is not a surprise when you come to Kiambu County and go to the hospital, they prescribe a vaccine or an injection. You might see the governor coming to inject you because they are not letting people work when it comes to executing their mandate. As I conclude, I wish the Council of Governors (CoG) led by the Governor of Kirinyaga County, Hon. Ann Waiguru, instead of calling press conferences to answer the"
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