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    "id": 141168,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Njuguna",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Peter Njuguna Gitau",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to contribute to this very important Motion. Firstly, I wish to thank the Minister for Medical Services for ably presenting his estimates to this House. We note that the entire Ministry was very much under-funded to the tune of about Kshs13 billion. This amount, if it was allocated, would have gone a long way in improving the health care of our people. To indicate one area that would have benefited tremendously is the KNH. The KNH is the biggest hospital in Eastern Africa and we recognize the best brains and the best doctors are there and they have been under-utilized. If more money was invested in that hospital, the kidney transplants that are forcing our people to go to South Africa and even India would have been treated here at home. The KNH started well ten years ago by way of effecting open heart surgery. It is like this exercise is going down because the funding in the same facility is not adequate. Again, at the KNH, if they had more money, the issue of holding treated patients would not be there. We note there are patients who have been treated, cured and have been held at ransom by the KNH because they are not able to pay the medical bills. If the KNH had adequate funds, these people would be out and become productive in the countryside. Another area that we need to note is the role of the private hospitals in this nation. Some of them have played major roles by way of providing very satisfactory services to our people but other private hospitals have not been co-ordinated properly. We have our patients going there; they do not find proper qualified doctors. They find quack dentists and even fake theaters in these places. I would urge the Ministry to pay more attention to this sector. The other critical area is the role played by the herbalists in this nation. Where do they get big titles like doctors? Who designates these people? They cheat innocent Kenyans and when they go there, they get wrong prescriptions and they end up dying! Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the other issue that should be given more thought and more funding is the emergence of new districts in the nation. To date, we are talking about 254 districts. We need to upgrade the facilities. We need to have ambulances. We need to have doctors and other people. So, more money must be released to those new districts."
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