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    "id": 1522081,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Dullo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Dullo Fatuma Adan",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, you walk to the MoH and complain about certain issues within our counties, it is like the headquarters are fearing the governors. They then tell you, oh, governors will say we are interfering with the running of the hospitals. Surely, where do we run to as Kenyans? There are no drugs, there is no service delivery. You can imagine, yesterday, a lady from a place called Olonyiro in Isiolo travelled over 100 kilometres to go and get service delivery in Isiolo County Referral Hospital. She was told there were no drugs. I had to send Kshs3,000 to buy her drugs in Isiolo. How many other patients are suffering? How many other patients, who do not have anybody to run to, are suffering? Our hospitals are actually in a pathetic situation. Leave alone county referral, the dispensaries, the sub-county hospitals, there are no deliveries that are actually safe. Women are suffering. They do not even get reproductive rights. Something needs to be done. I request Sen. Mandago, I know you are listening to me, I know you have a budget for domestic travel. Can you sample the counties that have problems? Please, visit those counties and ensure that you have put them actually on accountability. We cannot sit here every day and talk about this and that that are not happening in our counties. Something must be done. Somebody should be held accountable. You can imagine pending bills are not even being paid. Yet, if you look at the budget of counties, you will see that the health department is the one that is taking the chunk of the budget allocated to the counties. However, those counties do not even use that money. They do not even know where it goes. They do not know even where the drugs are even procured. Even the Chief Officers (COs) of the procurement department, they do not know how procurement of those things are being done. We blame KEMSA but sometimes you will find that most of the counties are even buying drugs across the counter. We have to have a serious conversation as far as health care services is concerned in this country. As Sen. Veronica was saying, most of us went to Government hospitals when we were young and even at an early age in our lives. However, today, you cannot find anything in those hospitals. There are no syringes, no panadols, no antibiotics - They are not there - yet, we are fighting always here to allocate money to the counties. I think we have to have a serious conversation as far as service delivery is concerned in the health sector. I hope Sen. Mandago and the Committee will take a lead in this to ensure that there is sanity in health care services in our counties. I thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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