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    "id": 1517200,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1517200/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13599,
        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
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    "content": "If you do the math, it is over Kshs120 million per month that SHA is supposed to pay in Mbagathi Hospital. However, SHA is paying Mbagathi Hospital a measly Kshs15 million per month. How are they supposed to provide services? As I speak today, SHA owes Mbagathi Hospital alone Kshs400 million. Then, we expect these hospitals to serve the people of Nairobi? Therefore, we must raise these issues. We want the committee that has been charged with these two statements to ensure that they come to the bottom of all these issues so that we are able to not only treat our CHPs. The medical interns and everybody who works in the health sector with dignity, but also can unlock the problem of financing from SHA. Lastly, at the invitation of the Senator of Mandera, some colleagues and I can see has walked in, visited the health facilities in Mandera. One of the things is that much of the equipment that had been procured under the medical leasing scheme, contracts is coming to an end. The information we gathered from Mandera is that the suppliers of the new equipment are putting very onerous terms in terms of percentages of the money that is supposed to be paid to those suppliers on these county governments. They told us it is as high as 60 per cent of the payment that is paid for that service is required to go back to the equipment supplier. We, as a Senate, must bring those contracts into focus here, and I urge the Health Committee to ensure that this is done, so that our people can enjoy proper health facilities. I thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir."
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