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    "content": "constituencies which are on our performance contracts and, therefore, we will be there. There is Kshs10 million that has been allocated for buying chemicals for eradicating pests like jiggers. We have mapped out the homes and constituencies to benefit. There are many hon. Members who spoke on the same issues which I hope that I have covered. I know there are still many health centers which have been built by our Members of Parliament. With the extra staff, we hope that we will register them and operate them. On the issue of ambulances, my Ministry does not have any money this financial year to buy ambulances but we will discuss this with the Ministry of Medical Services. The issue was about a certain hospital which is a district hospital. This is under the Ministry of Medical Services. We want to have ambulances in our health centers and sometimes the National Health Insurance Fund buys ambulances for us and we will be making a formal request towards this. Even those people who go to the dispensaries and pay insurance should be covered in this. At an implementing workshop of my Ministry last week, as we were looking at the Budget, with the Chief Executive Officer of the Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (KEMSA), we discussed about the modalities of distributing drugs. We were able to pin point, both from KEMSA side and our side, where we needed to improve. I believe that we will give better services than what we have given before. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I just want to ask hon. Members to appreciate the fact that after the post-election violence crisis, bringing back the services to normal has not been very easy. Some things have not gone as good as they should but we will do everything we can to improve. I noted Ms. Karua’s comments about Cuba. We all know that Cuba is very advanced when it comes to delivery of health services. That is what we would like to do. We definitely have the know-how and we would like to borrow those examples. Definitely, the equipment costs a lot of money. We have been asking for more money, but we will do whatever we can with what we have. Even if we are unable to have all the equipment, for example, X-ray machines, my Ministry is planning to have, at least, microscopes in laboratories to diagnose cholera and other simple diseases which affect our people. Even now when there is cholera outbreak, we do offer treatment as we wait for the results of the tests to be brought from where we sent them."
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