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    "id": 1567496,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1567496/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Methu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13581,
        "legal_name": "Methu John Muhia",
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    "content": ", so that we can understand the anguish that is with the people of Kenya. I wonder what we as leaders, politicians and us who have been given authority over the people of Kenya think when we read such things and see suck kind of issues; when we watched the video of that father who was holding a dead child and when we look at this Petition of baby Annita Jepkorir. How does it make us feel? We are telling the UHC staff that we do not have money for them to be permanent and pensionable and to give them gratuity for the five years they have worked. They are asking themselves; five years ago when they were being employed, the budget of the Republic of Kenya was at Kshs2.4 trillion. This year’s budget has gone beyond the Kshs4 trillion mark. Even after the budget has grown with Kshs1.6 trillion, there is still no money to take care of our UHC staff. The Daily Nation headline was – Patients Abandoned . You could see a sad photo of patients in hospitals. There is no one to attend to them because the UHC medics have been on the streets for weeks and doctors have boycotted duties citing pay delays. We want to blame doctors for negligence. No one should watch people lie there in anguish because they require services and you are the only one who can offer those services. Madam Temporary Speaker, to be the devil’s advocate, what do those medical practitioners feel when we cannot process their allowances and we are not working on their promotions? The problem we have in the county where that dad was screaming yesterday is arbitrary transfers of doctors. They have no certainty in terms of the services they offer. When we tell the UHC staff that we do not have money for their allowances or have them on permanent and pensionable, then they look at the budget of the State House at the time when they were employed and look at the same budget now and also look at the other things that we in the Government feel that we need to invest a lot of money on and yet, in one supplementary budget, we can give the National Intelligence Services (NIS) a whooping Kshs10 billion as additional funds because they are working on serious security installations. It is not bad to invest in serious security installations, but one would wonder; now I am secure but sick and I do not have anyone to attend to me when I go to hospital. It beats logic. We want to preserve life because we are working on security but we also want to expose our people into losing the same lives because we are not offering the services that they require. Madam Temporary Speaker, I have also looked at the recommendations that have been made. This is where we have a gap in law. It is something that Parliament needs to look at. The KMPDC should in three months after adoption of this Report issue a caution or a reprimand. That is the law. The reading of Section 26(a) says that the only tools KMPDC has is to caution and reprimand. If I am disorderly in this House, you will caution me once. The second time, you will chase me out. However, for a medical doctor who is negligent and has caused loss of life and it has been verified and found out that it is out of the negligence of"
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