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    "id": 1423549,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1423549/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Maanzo",
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        "legal_name": "Maanzo Daniel Kitonga",
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    "content": "Then comes delivery time. As Sen. Omtatah has said, he was born at home. I too was born at home, deep in Makueni at the time, even the road services were very difficult to find. The nearest hospital was 200 kilometres away, which is Machakos town. Some traditional methods and experts knew how best to deliver a baby. My grandmother, thank God, was such an expert. Therefore, I was safely born. Then, if something was to go wrong, it would have taken two days to get to Machakos District Hospital. There was only one bus, which only appeared every 24 hours. If you missed that bus, you had to wait. So, you would imagine what would be the situation. I am sure, still in some parts of this country today, we have some rare remoteness, whereby unless you take the health services of expectant mothers to the grassroots, then there is a problem. That is why devolution is very important. That is why this law is very important. The other aspect of this law is a devolved one. This is not a national law. Therefore, wherever the presence of the national Government has been mentioned - I believe during the Third Reading - the Mover should delete it. The devolved function should fully own this function, so that every other county in Kenya has a hospital like the one we have in Wote, Makueni County. If it is duplicated everywhere, even in some of the sub-county hospitals and dispensaries we would have some facility which will assist expecting mothers in cases of emergencies."
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