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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiambaa, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Njuguna Kawanjiku",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Many of the questions that I would have raised have been asked by Members, but I have a question on Primary Health Care and the quality the Cabinet Secretary has talked about. On the money that goes to counties, I do not know if there is a system and how it operates between county governments and the national Government. The reason we are paying excessively is to make sure that we get quality healthcare in our primary Levels 1, 2, 3, and 4 hospitals. Even as we pay a lot of money to these hospitals, there are no drugs and doctors. I have a Level 4 hospital known as Karuri Hospital. When you go to that hospital at 7.00 a.m. you find no doctors and nurses, but we expect that they will give quality healthcare. Indeed, that is next to impossible! There must be a way the Ministry is able to secure and track the money and the resources that they send to these hospitals and make sure that there is prudent use of the resources in these hospitals between the county governments and the national Government. We are paying expressively so that we can avoid the many Harambees where we normally cough out money during weekends. Yesterday, I had a patient who was sent by Kenyatta National Hospital to go and seek services outside because their machines were not operational. I had to cough about Ksh20,000 for that patient. She also told me that I had to follow up the case because she could not be admitted. Such kind of a patient is above treatment at Levels 1, 2, 3, and 4 hospitals. So, still the quality healthcare we are talking about cannot be realised in the hospitals. The Cabinet Secretary should make sure that there is a serious follow up as far as resources are concerned to ensure prudent use of money. Thank you."
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