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    "id": 1565559,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1565559/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13219,
        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
        "slug": "erick-okongo-mogeni"
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    "content": "in Mukuru kwa Njenga, but we do not have an affordable housing project in the County of Nyamira. So, if you are launching projects in Nairobi, how are the people in Nyamira County feeling? We should be innovative. If we are not able to do flats, go down to the villages, to those people who do not have houses and build for them houses. We do not all have to live in flats. If the people in Nairobi are happy to live in flats, go to Nyamira and look at the houses of the poorest homes, build for them homes. Build 100 houses and then go and launch them. That would be my wish for my people. We may not all want to live in skyscrapers. The skyscrapers belong to our New York which is Nairobi City. However, back at counties, that is what we should do. When we went to Uasin Gichu County, I had an engagement with youths in Ziwa Hospital. One of the participants was called Joel. He told me that, you, people, at the Senate, when you talk in the Senate, you should also talk about our needs. He told me they have problems with the SHA. SHA is not being accepted in their private hospitals in Eldoret. When they go there, they are told that SHA can only be used in public hospitals. I think we have had this thing for one year. We have known the problems. Let us now respond to the challenges that SHA is facing. I can tell all of us, Senators, if we were to be honest, public hospitals have no capacity to treat all Kenyans. That is a fact. They do not have capacity to treat all Kenyans. Two, they are not well-equipped with medicine. You will go to a public hospital, you will be attended to, there will be consultation, but you will not get medicine. I can tell you - and God is my witness - and Sen. Cherarkey knows the people that I am talking about. The people at home in Nyamira who work for me used to go to a hospital with NHIF to Ichuni Private Hospital. They would get treated, consultation included, get prescription and drugs were dispensed. Nowadays they go to Keroka Public Hospital because SHA is not being accepted in a private hospital. Consultation takes place, they get a prescription, then they are told to go to a private chemist to buy medicine. Really, we must be sympathetic to these people down there because it had gone into their mind that once you get a SHA card, the equivalent of NHIF, you will have solved your medical problems. Let us revisit it, Senate Majority Leader. Let us revisit. As you informed me, these people are watching you; you greeted them, you even took a photo with them."
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