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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nandi County, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Cynthia Muge",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this Motion. At the outset, let me say I support this Supplementary Budget Estimates I of 2024/2025. Of course, when the Budget came to our attention, I was a bit disturbed as a member of Committee on Health. And looking at the cuts that the health facilities were taking, right from Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, that was supposed to benefit from Ksh100 million for the construction of a children's hospital to supplement the Shoe4Africa… You know Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital serves a very good number of counties. Of course, my heart sunk. Same to the ICU facility that was supposed to go there. I was disturbed by the fact that the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), which is the strongest and the greatest facility in advancing issues of medicine, received a total cut of Ksh400 million that was meant for research and such kind of things. Of course, it makes my heart sink to see that Mathare Hospital, that handles mental ill health issues in this country, received a 100 per cent cut, and this is one of the facilities that we run to when we have such issues. Of course, it pained me to also see a budget cut on the National Spinal Injury, which is the only one facility in the whole country that serves anyone who suffers from a spinal injury. That facility is in dire need of funds for it to be upgraded and expanded so that it can accommodate and treat more people. But that particular facility received a 100 per cent cut, which is actually taking us back in matters of development of health. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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