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    "content": "I think this is something that we need to address urgently just like we are deploying and employing teachers. The Ministry of Health must move with speed to employ lecturers to assist our students who are in KMTCs. The KMTC is recommending that to mitigate that challenge, they have moved to the e-learning technology. This is a good move. However, in as much as a lecturer who is in KMTC Nairobi Campus may be able to teach1,000 students across the country in all the KMTCs that are spread, there is no physical interaction between the teachers and the students. They have also said that the county governments are collaborating with KMTCs. But to what extent? It is a wish that KMTC is making. What capacity is given to those KMTCs? They are national institutions. County governments deal with only devolved functions. The issue of training and standards is domiciled in the Ministry of Health, which is in the national Government. We, therefore, wish to see the kind of collaboration that those people envisage with the county governments. Hon. Temporary Speaker, going forward, there is the issue of Kenyatta University Teaching, Referral and Research Hospital (KUTRRH). In the last Parliament, I happened to have sat in the Departmental Committee on Health, when that hospital was incepted and constructed. I was able to go through the figures because it is my area of interest. It is in only one of the hospitals or facilities in this country that I would say, we had value for money. It was built through a loan from the Chinese. The Government spent Ksh8 billion on the state-of- the-art hospital. We took a whole two years to commission the hospital. This is because we did The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for informationpurposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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