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"content": "who has not visited KUTRRH to go and see the facilities there. We do not have a hospital with such facilities, and with the latest technology in training and in terms of medication. Many of us find the comfort in private institutions that we have within Nairobi or even outside Nairobi. I do not want to mention names. Some of us will even be comfortable going out of the country when we have left an institution like this, that even has a machine called PET scan for cancer, meaning that our patients do not have to go outside the country. If Members of Parliament start using those public facilities, the CEOs and doctors would be there to provide adequate services. They would not be rushing to their private clinics because they know a senior government official may show up any time. I would, therefore, be moving a Motion in this House which will compel public officers to get services from public institutions. If you are insured and you have a medical insurance worth Ksh10 million, use that Ksh10 million or Ksh5 million in the public facility so that, that money can be ploughed back to the public. We would not have many pending bills. With that, staff in those public institutions will not go unpaid. Why are we facilitating private hospitals while we have our own public hospitals with well-trained doctors? The most unfortunate bit is that the doctors in those private hospitals are the ones who are hired in public hospitals. They spend almost half of their time in their private facilities because that is where we are going. We end up making the public suffer because we are not going to public hospitals. My recommendation is that, soon, all public officers will use public hospitals. As I finish, allow me to speak a little bit about KMTC. I thank the Members of Parliament, especially through NG-CDF. They have been trying so much to fund KMTC. If the Chairperson and his Committee did due diligence, I believe there is danger. This is because there are many of those facilities in almost every constituency. The question is: When are we going to have trainers to train the students? Where are we going to get students from in each and every constituency? Where are we going to get the equipment? Or are we just going to have buildings well-branded as KMTC, but they do not have enough teachers, lecturers or even enough students? Secondly, every KMTC should be built near a Level 4 hospital, which is a sub-county hospital, or a Level 5 or 6 hospital. When you build a KMTC at the corner of your constituency, where they do not even have a health centre to be used by the students for practice, it means the students have to travel very far. I recently learnt that there is a constituency in northern Kenya that is the size of the former Central Province. Save for such constituencies, we can have one KMTC in every constituency. I urge this Committee and the Departmental Committee on Health to relook at the upcoming KMTC institutions. We can, at least, have one per county that is well equipped, has enough lecturers and proper facilities for training. That will mean we will give students the worth of their money. We do not want buildings with one or two lecturers and yet, we have many students. Secondly, could we also specialise? We know different diseases affect different areas. So, we do not have to have one kind of training or curriculum. For instance, if orthopaedic issues and cancer affect one area, why do we not have the KMTC specifically training in that area so that we become very specific? I urge the Committee and the Departmental Committee on Health to recommend to this House that before a KMTC is built, or a Member of Parliament starts building structures, they should get approval from KMTC through the Ministry of Health, so that we do not start too many of them and then we do not have enough students and it becomes a waste of resources. I thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Once again, I congratulate the Chair and the Committee for a job well done. I submit. 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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