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    "id": 22891,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang’-Nyong’o",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Medical Services",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": " Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, in line with my dear friend, Mr. Njuguna, the Member for Lari, I would like to thank my staff, the Permanent Secretary, Mary Ngare and the Director for Medical Services, Dr. Kimani for having worked very hard during the year to help deliver health services to our people. I would also like to thank all our partners who have partnered with us in providing, particularly development financing to rehabilitate our hospitals, to train our staff and for the acquisition of the enterprise resource programme at the KEMSA which was done very ably by the USAID. I also want to thank the House for the contributions this afternoon which I think have been very useful and informative for the kind of thing that we need to do in response to the needs of Kenyans. I particularly appreciate those who have spoken very passionately about the retention of bodies, mothers and children after giving birth in hospitals and the need to help the poor access health care. We all share the concerns of the House and I am glad that this issue has been brought up. I would not like in any way to cause inconvenience or pain to the people of Kenya when they go to health facilities, but all these issues boil down to one thing; adequate financing of our health facilities in a manner in which those facilities will run well and our people have access to health care. Members of Parliament are burdened everywhere by having to go to Harambee and acting to release bodies. This is inhuman to Members of Parliament. I do believe that if we can act together as a nation and come up with proper financing of health care, this will be a happier and more productive nation than it is today. A country like Taiwan which came into being only after 1949, and I have been to Taiwan, Taiwan was just a bear and barren island, but today it has one of the best health systems in the world. The secret came because Taiwan put in place the financing of the health system which has made it a world class deliverer of health care in the world. This country started very early in 1966. Our forefathers had the vision and hoped that within no time we would have a comprehensive social health system. But we, ourselves, have been reluctant to do this much to the detriment of a nation. I hope that within no time the proposal that we have in the Ministry will be embraced so that these questions do not keep on recurring and we shall realise that in Vision 2030."
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