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    "id": 1567492,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1567492/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Methu",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Methu John Muhia",
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    "content": "Having lived through this ordeal for the four months since she started her medication, it us tells that baby Annita Jepkorir was a brave young girl. She really wanted and even fought to live. Despite the negligence of the doctors, she fought on. From the observations that have been made by the Committee on the day that she collapsed, she was playing outside. I mean, that tells you that the baby was fighting to keep her life. There is a very thin line between doctors’ negligence and the recommendations that have been proposed by law of what should be done to a doctor who is negligent. Of the many professions that we have, if anything goes wrong, there are many ways of remedying but for a medical doctor at an operating table, one wrong move, we have lost a life. If it was an engineer, maybe even if they had built a five-storey building, it could be brought down and something can be corrected. If it was a mechanic, the part they have put in that engine can be corrected. For a medical doctor, once you do the wrong diagnosis, we have lost a life. I wonder whether you watched a video that was in the social media yesterday of a parent who was in deep pain from Igegania Hospital in Gatundu. You saw a father holding his daughter. Doctors want to come and pick the body of the daughter from the father. The father is asking the doctors, “I have been here the whole day. My daughter has died in my hands. What have you been doing the whole day and you are saying that you are on strike? What would be more precious than a human life? That father was literally fighting the doctors in that hospital. Can you imagine the pain that was in that father? Do you imagine if your parent was to die in your hands and you are saying that we were supposed to help you in this kind of a situation? Madam Temporary Speaker, many people have spoken about what we in Government and leadership ought to do. There are many things that we ought to do. Of the many things and of the many services that we ought to think and plan in terms of offering services to the people of Kenya, if there is one area that we must be very deliberate and put as much effort and resources as possible, it will be in the healthcare system. Madam Temporary Speaker, I am happy that you are on that seat. I do not want to share the story with you because you were there yourself when one us got herself in a situation where she needed medical attention in some place around Ukambani. When you were taking her to Machakos Level 4 or Level 5 hospital, you felt that she could not even make it to the other hospitals that we come to in Nairobi such as the Nairobi Hospital. She really required medical services there and then. The closest medical facility that was there was Machakos Level 4 Hospital. Had that facility not had the services that that Senator required, you can imagine what would have happened. If we cannot invest in the healthcare - you have put it well - if we have a sick nation, then we do not have a nation. We have seen the UHC staff for the last about two or three months. They are always here at the gate. We pass them. Sometimes we speak to them and sometimes, we run away from them. The other time, we go through the Parliament’s Tunnel because we"
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