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    "id": 141171,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Murgor",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 90,
        "legal_name": "Julius Recha Murgor",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, for allowing me a chance to contribute to this very important topic. It is obvious, as shared before by other hon. Members, that a healthy nation is a nation that will perform to the expectations of the citizens. Generally, it will be an energized nation. I will say that for us to perform in academics, we need to have a healthy nation. For us to perform in other areas like agriculture and even move powerful bulldozers around, we need to have a healthy nation. That is why I support and concur with my colleagues that more money should be added to that important Ministry. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, improved health of our people will give us a healthy nation. To achieve that, we need doctors and qualified people. We should equip them to undertake health campaigns in the rural areas. They should create sanitary awareness in rural areas that do not have hospital facilities like urban areas. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I would strongly suggest that for us to carry out medical services to the expectations of our people, we must have facilities such as x- rays and laboratories. We should post technicians to district hospitals. Blood banks and blood transfusion equipment are very essential in our hospitals to improve the health of our people. So, the Ministry should be equipped enough to take those facilities to sub- district and district hospitals. That will enable them to curb the population that is pouring into the district headquarters and district hospitals. We should equip the sub-district hospitals so that not too many referral cases pour into the districts. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, we should have good plans in the Ministry to take services to isolated and remote rural areas that are populated. That is because in some places such as West Pokot and other remote districts, sick people walk for many miles to reach the nearest medical facility. So, the Ministry should take medical services closer to the people. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, we should train more nurses and doctors and spread them well over the districts. To curb brain drain, we should train adequate personnel so that we can send them to the rural areas. If we do not have adequate personnel, we should go to the source; that is the training. We should have a training facility for every three districts. That way, we can produce enough personnel to man the medical services in the districts in the rural areas."
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