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    "id": 1399079,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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        "id": 13599,
        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
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    "content": "which includes, a burn unit that would have taken care of all the victims from the Embakasi fire blast. At Mbagathi Hospital, where the Members of the Committee had an occasion to visit, the NHIF owes over Kshs180 million. There is a stalled outpatient department expansion block that requires only Kshs18 million, owed to the current contractor for him to return to site that he abandoned a long time ago. Mr. Deputy Speaker, finally, Mutuini Hospital has great controversy. When I went there on the 1st of February, as part of my oversight activities, I met Dr. Obwanda, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Hospital. He actually showed me an X-ray room that has been constructed but not completed because it does not have the lead doors required of all X-ray rooms. What was interesting is that we were told then that, we needed only Kshs700,000 to install lead doors on that building, so that we can use the X-ray machine in that particular room. Yesterday, when the Committee arrived from Nairobi, the CEO had changed the story. He is now saying that they acquired a mobile X-ray machine recently that does not require us to invest in lead doors and yet, the building is there. At Mutuini Hospital, Linda Mama Programme alone owes Mutuini hospital Kshs13 million. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is the right time for this House to direct that before NHIF is wound down, so that we can bring in the Social Health Insurance Authority (SHIA), all the debts owed to all county facilities should be paid. I strongly support and I have 100 per cent faith in the Committee chaired by my friend, the Senator for Uasin Gishu, to get us this money. Yesterday, he saw for himself that, Nairobi needs this money. The county was trying to be clever by cleaning City Mortuary with a toothbrush yesterday, thinking that, they could blind the Committee. However, since there is God, there was a nationwide power blackout when we arrived. We then discovered that the facility has had no generator from 2018. I was feeling very bad for some of my colleagues because they could not even get into the facility because of the stench. We are in a crisis in Nairobi and this Statement is timely. I want the Chairperson and the Members of the Committee on Health to save us in Nairobi. Hatuna mahali penginepakwenda."
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