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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. That hospital has been allowed to break the law. It retains the identity cards of patients who fail to pay their medical bills. When you retain someone's identity card, you disenfranchise that person. This is because when you get to a roadblock - and they are many these days - the first thing you are asked to produce is your identity card. If you say: \"I left it in Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital,\" they will ask you: \"Where is Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital? There is no law called Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital. It is not a law. So, I am not starting to break the law here. They have allowed the law to be broken. Therefore, the man who is charge of that hospital should be asked to return all the identity cards and title deeds that he is retaining. It is a very serious matter because some people have been locked up in police stations for several weeks for lack of identity cards. When they explain that they left them in the hospital, they are told that, that is no excuse for breaking the law. Is this person, who is in charge of Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, above the law? Recently, he allowed, more or less, several millions of shillings to be \"taken\" straightaway from the hospital. Why does he keep millions of shillings in the hospital? That hospital is being mismanaged and, yet, it is public property. It is part of the Vote which we are passing today. It is our function, as Members of Parliament, to question the management of public utilities, including the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital. I will get a permit from the police - I only need to give a notice of three days - not to go and stone him, but to demonstrate and tell him: \"When you retain identity cards, you are breaking the law.\" So, I am forewarning the Government that they should not allow this person to mistreat Kenyans. We are the taxpayers and that hospital, like I said, was built with the taxpayers' money. They have taken the Uasin Gishu Memorial Hospital, which was built by our people. So, we should not allow him to mistreat the people. He should return--- Finally, Mr. Speaker, Sir, in my constituency, I would like those hospitals which have been upgraded to sub-district hospitals to have resident doctors. These are mainly Chepteruai and Mosoriot, although the doctor for Mosoriot has reported. However, in Chepteruai, for some reason, apparently the people who were posted there refused to go on transfer there. Why? Are they still doctors working for the Government? I am asking the Minister, when she replies, to say why the doctor to Chepteruai Sub-District Hospital is not reporting and yet we are passing the Vote here. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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