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    "id": 1382956,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mariam Omar",
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    "content": "are catered for. However, this is not the case because all our facilities do not have adequate staff. Additionally, the Government should not open ways for the doctors and nurses to go out of the country to go and work. Why are we allowing this yet we do not have adequate staff? The best thing is to budget for the staff, so that we absorb our people as we need their services on the ground; at the counties. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is medical equipment that has been provided, but the health workers are understaffed. The other issue is on pending bills. As an accountant, if you put a budget for the work done and in the real sense, there is pending bills at the end of the year, I do not understand this reasoning since the budget has been approved and paid. Currently, we are using accrued basis to solve this. If the Government goes for cash basis which we recognise a pending bill in our financial statements, that change of accounting system from accrued basis to cash basis can solve this pending bill issue. The other issue is under the budget of recurrent expenditure to the health sector. We, as a committee, recommend that we classify the expenditure as a critical and non- critical expenditure, so that we can absorb our health workers who are currently working on a contract basis to be on a permanent and pensionable system."
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