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    "id": 275207,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Raila",
    "speaker_title": "The Prime Minister",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 195,
        "legal_name": "Raila Amolo Odinga",
        "slug": "raila-odinga"
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I did also talk about improving the health facilities in our country and investing in state of the art facilities, so that we do not have to spend too much money transporting patients for treatment outside the country, for example, South Africa, India, the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States of America (USA). This is not only robbing this country of a lot of money, but also impoverishing very many of our people. Because the facilities that we have are also inadequate, the costs are generally very high. Sometimes you can say that we have extortionate rates. Recently, we had a patient, a medical doctor, who had an accident. He fell after missing a step and hit his head. He was seriously injured. This doctor spent two- and-a-half months in Nairobi Hospital and died. The hospital bill was over Kshs8 million which had to be raised. You are raising Kshs8 million to pay for accommodation in a hospital for two-and-a-half months. Hospital accommodation is much more expensive in this country than a five-star hotel room. You are paying this money, but the patient has also died. If you are paying and somebody has survived, it is a different matter all together. But you are paying basically to be allowed to take away the dead body. So, some of these are extortionate rates. This is a state of affairs that is unacceptable and we are determined to change it. This is the reason the Government must invest in state of the art facilities and, at the same time, create a conducive environment for the private sector also to partake of this, so that we can progressively lower the cost of medical care, so that we can make it accessible and affordable to the majority of our people."
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