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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me assure the Chair; Mr. Ethuro, that I have got your Statement right here. I had it ready today. I have signed a copy which will come to you. I signed it this morning but maybe you have not received it. If you call me to Turkana Central, just like I go to Kisumu, I will come. There is no discrimination in our Ministry. Many Members have talked about the new model health centres. I want to assure you that, as I said earlier, we will involve Members of Parliament not only in citing the positioning but also in the whole process of management. We want you to be part and parcel of the process. You and your development committee will be the ones to tell us whether the end product is good. At every stage, we will pay only after the committee on the ground is satisfied. However, I would like to urge you to work very closely with our health officers on the ground, especially the catchment areas, to make sure the project is not a white elephant. We are not putting up white elephants. The money will be properly planned and the facility will be finished and functioning by the end of this financial year. I hope we will have a kamukunji where we can discuss more about this with Members of Parliament. On the issue of employment of 20 nurses, in my introduction policy, I said that we have to safeguard the gains and make sure that there will be continuation. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on staffing health centres, we have been employing new nurses. It took a bit of time but we shall be distributing the nurses equally as needs are manifested. I want to assure the Member for Githunguri that we need more health centres and facilities in constituencies because the policy we have takes into account the fact that nobody should walk more than five kilometers looking for a health centre. We will still not even have enough by the time we have constructed these. I, therefore, urge you to look for land. If it not five acres we can also go up. We hope you will cooperate. We are appealing to people to manage their own health through the community strategy. Not only that, the funds will be going directly to the health facilities. We have borrowed a leaf from the Ministry of Education where I was before and I know that the money goes to the primary schools directly. Now, the money will be going to the community for each facility. We have committees which are being trained on how to manage the money. Therefore, I do not believe that there will continue being loss. As they manage the money, they must also manage the drugs to make sure that the drugs that are brought to the facility are not taken elsewhere."
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