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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Okiya Omtatah",
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    "content": "today. It is not an accident that in this country, people who live in mansions are largely those who work with the Government, either as politicians, civil servants or Government contractors. You will hardly find any wealth being created away from the Government. It is not just in health, but in all other sectors. It is like the Kenyan taxpayer has totally nothing to protect them from the greed of those in power. So, I would urge that this House pushes for a policy whereby Government stores are branded. Let me go to the clinic and if I do not find drugs that the Government has supplied, let it be that the Government has not supplied. It should not be that I have gone to the clinic, the Government has supplied drugs, but somebody else has taken them out and put them into a private shop or pharmacy. Madam Temporary Speaker, I would urge that we try to do the common-sense thing. Let us go back and do the simple things that have worked. The third Point is on a request that we provide details on the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, currently in use at KEMSA disclosing its vendors. I saw Sen. Mandago mention a question of Kshs1 billion and how much it can do in terms of ERP. However, here we are spending a lot of money acquiring an ERP system under the Social Health Authority (SHA). The SHA is not supplying any product. They are supplying a platform, and it is running into billions of shillings. Inclusive of taxes, we are going to acquire an ERP to run the SHA system, which includes KEMSA and others, at a whooping Kshs104 billion! If that is taken against what Sen. Mandago, the Chairperson of the Committee submitted, then you will realize that we are just being scammed. There is no justification for these high costs that we get. The other day I was in Kilifi, and while interacting with the villagers in Tsangatsini, I came across a very sad story. The story was that a lady was bitten by a cobra, and a boda boda picked the lady up, put her on a motorcycle, and rushed her to the hospital in Mariakani, only for the lady to arrive, and she was asked whether she was registered with SHA or not, and they required the identity card. So, the boda boda had run back to look for the ID. By the time he came back, she had succumbed to the snake bite. That is how sorry the question of medicine is in this country. There is no humanity in the provision of health care in this country. You can die just because people do not understand that you are a human being. There is something called emergency healthcare, which is a right. You must get emergency health care when you need it. When you go to my county of Busia, nothing is working. The hospitals are not working. There are no drugs. The medical personnel are demoralized. Nothing seems to work. There was a case in Amukura dispensary where a woman who was to deliver twins died because they did not seem to know that she was carrying twins. I do not know how that happened. She delivered one child, the other child remained in the womb, and it led to complications which led to the death of this lady. It was during postmortem they discovered that she had another child who had remained in the womb. How does that happen in a Government hospital? How can you not know that a mother is carrying two or three babies? What is happening in this country is very sad and unacceptable. In my county of Busia, the big shame is that people are flocking across the border into Uganda, into Buteba to get treatment. Kenyans who live near the border are crossing 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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