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    "id": 175365,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mungatana",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Medical Services",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 185,
        "legal_name": "Danson Buya Mungatana",
        "slug": "danson-mungatana"
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    "content": " Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to reply. (a) Yes, I am aware that both Pap Onditi District Hospital in Nyando and Kombewa District Hospital in Kisumu West do not have operating theatres. Both have been upgraded from health centres in the recent past and the Ministry plans to improve their infrastructure, including construction of theatres in the Mid-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) for 2009 to 2012. (b) It is true that the Nyanza Provincial General Hospital attracts patients from parts of Western and Rift Valley provinces. It is similarly true that the number of medical consultants has been steadily rising in the past three years. However, the Ministry's policy is not to encourage patients to seek treatment in provincial hospitals on first visits. Rather, the Ministry's plan is to strengthen the capacity for management of common and specialised conditions at the district and sub-district hospitals, so that the provincial hospitals can handle referral cases. Towards this end, with the aim of decongesting the provincial general hospitals, some of the increasing numbers of medical consultants are now being deployed in district hospitals to offer specialised medical services at that level. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, in its initial phase of decentralisation, the consultants being deployed in the district hospitals are mainly surgeons and gynaecologists. Those categories of consultants happen to be the majority we have within our establishments. Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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