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    "id": 1517244,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1517244/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Thang’wa",
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    "content": "As a Senate, we have been handed a golden opportunity, which is to come up with a revenue sharing formula that will see us give more money to the counties. I urge this House, especially Members of the Committee on Finance and Budget, to introduce a parameter when scrutinising this report, to have a revenue sharing index based on health. Why am I saying that? Health is universal and you cannot stop a person from going to a certain hospital. People leave their counties to go to others to seek for health services. For instance, in Thika Level 5 Hospital in Kiambu, we get patients all the way from Garissa, Machakos and Murang’a. If we cannot use health index when sharing money to the counties, we will continue to experience this issue of poor health facilities. Remember some of the people who visit these hospitals come from counties that are poorer and therefore receive more money because they use the poverty index, yet those counties are becoming poorer than before. What I am trying to say is that we have been handed an opportunity to solve this issue by making sure that we give more money to counties that are giving proper medical services. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, lastly is on the Statement by Sen. Hamida. It is very sad. In Kiambu County, in a span of four months, we have lost two medical interns by suicide. That shows that we need to interrogate Kiambu County Government and hospitals in Kiambu County because we lost Francis Njuki at Thika Level 5 Hospital four months ago---"
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