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    "content": "for education and over 30 per cent for our development. That shows that our priorities are not right. When we have an unhealthy nation, we cannot be productive and our people cannot live for long. That is why the Government ought to put more resources to this sector. The Ministries dealing with health matters should be concerned with anything that has to do with the health of Kenyans. For example, two important things are the key factors that are affecting our youth in terms of their health. One of them is consumption of illicit brew and the other one is addiction to drugs. These two issues should be of key concern to the Ministries dealing with health matters because they have to do with the health of our people and especially the youth of this nation. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I feel that without research and development, we will move nowhere. There are new emerging diseases. Twenty years ago, diseases like hypertension or diabetes were unknown, where I come from, in Kinangop. Today, they are among the biggest killers of my people. We ought to do research and find out why this is so. Is it because of the kind of food that we are eating or due to climate change or activities or what? Once research is done, these Ministries would advise people on what measures to take. I also want to talk about the Drugs and Poisons Board which falls under these Ministries. Every FM radio station you tune to has advertisements about herbal medicines by doctors that we are not sure whether they are qualified yet they claim to cure each and every disease. I do not think this is so. Is it not the responsibility of the Drugs and Poisons Board to see that people do not advertise things that can be harmful to our people? They do nothing about it. I want to talk about the remuneration of our medical personnel. The reason why there is an outflow of our medical staff is because we do not remunerate them well. That is one factor. However, even a more harmful factor is the policy decision that was made by the Government that civil servants could take up their jobs and at the same time conduct private business. I stand for paying a top surgeon even Kshs1 million a month, so that he works at the Kenyatta National Hospital full time instead of working at the Kenyatta National Hospital, the Aga Khan Hospital, The Nairobi Hospital, Mater Hospital and at any other hospital. You cannot distribute your time all over and be efficient. I am for a policy change. This country requires to make firm and hard decisions to correct the things that have made us go wrong. In conclusion, I would like to see collaboration between the public and the private sectors. With those few remarks, I support."
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