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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Tabitha Mutinda",
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    "content": "finance team and just put in place. It has been brought about by different factors that range from inflation costs, commercial interest rates, as well as the cost of the Community Health Promoters (CHPs) and cost of health. Like you have seen, doctors from different departments have been on strike and you know very well health is devolved. So, the justification of the Senate to allocate the Kshs415 billion to counties is to ensure that the bigger chunk goes to health. One of the key areas that our committee considered to come from Kshs385 billion to the Kshs415 billion was the medical costs. Look at the role that the CHPs are doing. They go door to door. The Government through the Ministry of Health has also equipped the CHPs in the different counties, so that they are able to assist people at the lower level in order to help them at an early time. I have always said that a healthy nation is a wealthy nation. Looking back and remembering my undergraduate degree studies that most of us have done, and looking at the pastel factors that range from political stability, economic stability, social, technological, legal aspect and a conducive environment, there is nothing that stops this country from ensuring that we have e-health in place, putting in mind that the factors that I have stated are all in place and at a well-placed position. There are no issues, including the social perspective. We are now socialising digitally. We are now using the digital technology to do a lot, such as using the Amazon application to make purchases among many other things. What we have not prioritized and I am backing it up, is the issue of the e-health service because all these other things are sorted. For example, in transport, we have the Uber sector. From where I am seated, I can get my transport from point ‘A’ to point ‘B’. There is availability of the Uber services because the technology is in place. As I have said, in the banking sector, I am able to sit down and do my transaction. I can pay for my goods from where I am seated and many others across that as far as the technology is concerned. However, as far as the health is concerned, we have lagged behind. However, this Bill comes at a very good time because the e-health factor is a very key and important factor. I do not want to ignore the issue of the interns that have been mentioned earlier. They play a key role in this country. The education system that we have, requires our students in the upper learning level to undergo the theoretical part of studies and also have an opportunity to practice and understand how the industry works. I remember during my studies as a pharmacy student then before I changed my career, I did an internship. Without that, I could not qualify to move to the final level and graduate if I had not done the internship. So, internship plays a key role. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, let us consolidate matters of the JSS interns, which I heard today. How do we have competent personnel from the legal sector, medical sector and any other sector, if we do not allow them to be much more practical and give them opportunities, which should not come free? They need to be paid. I am happy because Parliament has been fair. It gives young people an opportunity to be interns in this institution and pays them. It is not free. There are institutions that do"
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