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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Let me take this opportunity also to support Statements by both Senators. I think we have to be serious and candidly tell each other that we have failed as a country as far as health services are concerned. Yesterday I was not in the House, but I saw the way the Cabinet Secretary was struggling to answer questions on SHA, which meant almost nothing. Kenyans are suffering as far as healthcare services are concerned. We are talking about KEMSA delivery to the county referral hospitals. If you go to those counties and look at the shelves, the only drugs you can find are drugs that are not even required by the patients and are not supposed even to move. Those are the only drugs that we find on the shelves of those hospitals. As the Senate, we always talk about committees doing this, doing that. However, I think, Sen. Mandago, having actually interacted with your committee where the Governor for Isiolo has taken your committee to court, I know you have a budget for local travel or domestic travel. You need to visit those hospitals within the counties. Your committee should make a commitment. Now that we do not have international travels, they should visit the critical hospitals that we have in this country. The other day, I went to a hospital in Isiolo where a body was left to lie from 3.00p.m. to 9.00p.m. simply because they did not have gloves. You can imagine the hospital officials and the Governor saying the body was brought to the casualty. How can a body be brought to the casualty? Why would a body be received at the casualty? Which law did they apply? The bodies are received at the mortuary. Of course, I know very well the mortuary for Isiolo is not working. However, for a body to lie there from 3.00 p.m. to 9.00 p.m. and somebody is arguing Fatuma is the one who has brought that body there, surely, should I carry the body on my back and take it to the casualty? Can you imagine in that casualty room there are even kids in the next bed crying, others are unconscious, and the body is just lying there? We have said over the years that the national headquarters of Ministry of Health (MoH) should be in control of the standard of the hospitals within our counties. That is not happening. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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