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    "id": 1407827,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ogola",
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    "content": "them out, you will see that other than Nyeri and Nyandarua which are at their lowest, a number of our counties are not doing well. This brings me to a statement that an economist gave out. If we have invested so much in bringing our mothers and girls to hospitals and dispensaries, then why are our girls and women still dying from a natural activity such as childbirth? There are concerns that we must address as a country. It is time we worked on the quality of our service provision. Some of the concerns and critical questions that we must ask ourselves as a country are; do the services that we provide meet the minimum quality standards? I bring up these concerns because as a country, we must address the issue of mothers and girls that we continue to lose. Other concerns are; do the facilities that we have in our healthcare facilities such as dispensaries, health centres and referral hospitals ensure the highest attainable standards of care? Do we have shortfalls in health systems financing models? What are our models of financing health? Do we have an adequate workforce that is available for patient care? The workforce must be looked into in terms of numbers and skills that they have. We must also address the issue of an unresponsive health information system. We should not expect different results, yet we continue to do things in the same old manner. It is about learning and unlearning what we have. As I indicated when I began to move the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Bill (Senate Bills No.17 of 2023), Part I talks about the preliminaries. These are just interpretations in the Bill. The Bill has a short Title that may be cited as the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Act, 2023. We also have interpretations and objects of the Bill. The objects of the Bills are to–"
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