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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Okiya Omtatah",
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    "content": "it is certified that somebody needs medical intervention to conceive, should be carried by the state, which is the ultimate beneficiary. The state benefits from the citizens who come into this world. I would also urge the Mover of this Bill to consider matters of nutrition of the newborn babies. We need to create an environment where it is possible to transmit life effortlessly. For me, it would be upon the State to provide a newborn baby with the basic necessities to lead a healthy life. Beyond immunisation and various vaccinations, the newborn baby should be given basic nutritional requirements for the baby’s development into a functional human being with all capacities. Therefore, that would require some support towards those households that do not have enough to provide for that child through some rations et cetera . The other issue is the loss of life, not as a result of the mother not being able to deliver, but as a result of either the nurses or midwives being overworked or negligent. There have been very many cases of the loss of both mother and baby due to the negligence of nurses and midwives. Therefore, there would be a need to secure that space and make sure that there is a mechanism for monitoring and ensuring that there is no loss of life births and mothers who have succeeded in giving birth. We have the question of children being unable to develop because of lack of attention during birth. I do not know the medical word for it, but we have children who suffer cerebral palsy as a result of the mismanagement at delivery. Those cases need to be documented. Anytime we have a child with cerebral palsy, there should be a follow-up to establish what happened at delivery. Was it as a result of negligence or an act of God? These cases are becoming too many. Maybe it needs to be addressed through some form of legislation or regulation. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I support this Bill, I also call upon the medical fraternity to tell us why the standard form of delivery has become cesarean section today. Why do you not have as many natural births as they used to be? Some of us, like I am told, were just born at home. I was delivered from our house. Why is it that today women are being opened up left, right and center? Every birth you hear is cesarean section. Maybe the Mover of this Bill should give us a procedure of when a woman should be sent to caesarean section. It must not be the first line of delivery. It has become too common. We know there is money in it, but it should not be the motivation to some of these things. This is a very important Motion that needs to be given all the support we can. As for county governments, they have this huge burden. We know that even before devolution came, pregnancies and matters of maternity were not a matter of clinical medicine, unless complications arose. It was handled by the county councils and local authorities. Even Pumwani Hospital, as big as it is, did not belong to the national government, but the then County Council of Nairobi. Now that these functions have properly been devolved, I would like to see the money that is supposed to run healthcare leaving Nairobi and going to the counties. We cannot be in a situation where the services are delivered by county governments, but the money remains in the Ministry of Health to do whatever we do not The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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