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    "speaker_name": "Mr. ole Metito",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Youth Affairs",
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        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute in support of Vote 11 - Ministry of Health. The Ministry of Health is a very important service Ministry. It has been doing well in the last four or five years. Therefore, I want to support this Vote. I would like to start by saying that I support the increased budget allocation that the Government has given this Ministry in this financial year. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in the last four or five years of this Government, the Ministry of Health has really shown a lot of improvement with regard to provision of services to wananchi . First, it is the availability or accessibility of medical care that we have witnessed in the last four or five years. What I mean is the availability of drugs in our dispensaries and hospitals. I think that there has been evidence of this in all our Government hospitals. Before, you could walk into a Government health facility and hardly get any medication. This was attributed to the fact that all our medical personnel used to operate their private businesses. You could not find drugs in Government facilities because they would find some space on the shelves of private facilities. However, for the last four years, this has been a very commendable move to this Ministry. At least, nowadays, drugs are available in our Government health facilities. Secondly, we have also witnessed affordable medical services. We are no longer experiencing what used to be called cost-sharing of medical services. So, other than the drugs being available, they are also affordable at this time. Thirdly, if you walk into our health facilities, that is, dispensaries, health centres or August 1, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 2929 hospitals, you will realise that they now, at least, have a clean face. Buildings in our health facilities have been refurbished and the compounds are clean, generally. In the past, we used to say that they look like a \"health hazard.\""
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