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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Okiya Omtatah",
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    "content": "Good afternoon, Madam Temporary Speaker. I thank you for the opportunity to address this House on this important Statement. Matters of health in this country have gone south. There is, basically, nothing to write home about. Before even we discuss about the drugs, you might want to know the capacities of the personnel who are in these hospitals. You will be shocked that many hospitals are not properly manned and patients go there and are not given the treatment that they require. However, besides that, when we come to the question of drugs or medicine, you wonder why they have put in checks and controls and software, and ask for delivery notes. They might even want x-rays of patients who have swallowed those medicine. When we were growing up, there used to be a very simple method of ensuring that Government supplies are not stolen. It was called branding. A government panadol was inscribed with the letters “Government of Kenya (GOK)”, and so were Government gloves and bottles. What is so difficult for KEMSA to have manufacturers brand Government supplies so that it is inbuilt in the drug that you cannot steal it. You cannot go and take a drug from the Government store and put it in a private pharmacy. Why can that simple thing not be done? Why are we making life look so difficult? You can be sure that whoever removed that branding of Government stores was opening the floodgates for the theft we feel 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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