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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, to ensure effective delivery of both preventive and curative healthcare in our facilities countrywide, I have allocated an additional Kshs500,000 for the purchase of five motorcycles for health workers, and 30 bicycles for community health workers in every constituency. I have also allocated a further Kshs5 million as additional funding towards Constituency Medical Supplies kits. This is in addition to the funding I have already allocated to the two Ministries of Health through the Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (KEMSA) for the purchase of medicine and medical supplies. To ensure efficiency in the drugs supply chain, storage and inventory control, I expect the two Ministries of Health, through KEMSA, to ensure an appropriate procurement system is put in place. Mr. Speaker, Sir, having put our pupils back to class through free primary education and free tuition in secondary schools, our focus is now on how to improve the quality of education throughout the country. In addition to the annual allocation towards payment of teachers and running of schools, I have allocated an additional Kshs1 billion each for free primary education and free secondary tuition to take care of increased cost of goods and services. Mr. Speaker, Sir, through this Budget, we are also initiating a countrywide programme to upgrade infrastructure and quality of education in order to give our children a better foundation, consistent with the requirements of the modern labour market. To this end, I propose to allocate Kshs1.5 billion or Kshs7 million per constituency for the upgrading of two primary schools and equipping them with water harvesting and underground water storage."
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