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    "id": 288236,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang’-Nyong’o",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Medical Services",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 193,
        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to make the following Statement with regard to the Assanands House blast yesterday on Moi Avenue and what the Kenyatta National Hospital has done since then to help our people. Mr. Speaker, Sir, following the blast that occurred at Assanands House along Moi Avenue on Monday, 28th May, the year of our Lord, 2012, Kenyatta National Hospital received a total of 28 casualties. Twenty three of them were treated for soft tissue injuries and discharged. Five are currently admitted at the Kenyatta National Hospital. Among those who have been admitted, two suffered 80 per cent degree burns and are currently in the Intensive Care Unit at the hospital. They are in critical but stable conditions. I wish to thank the Kenyatta National Hospital management and team for responding fast to the incident and for their efforts in stabilizing and managing the patients. We need to appreciate the very exemplary services that our health professionals give our people especially at such critical moments when we face the painful consequences of such major disasters. Mr. Speaker, Sir, since the Sinai fire incident in September, 2011, Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) has attended to ten disasters with 371 victims and a total number of 900 accident victims. We have so far lost 47 people as a result of the ten disasters. The Government needs to increase its funding to the hospital to be able to effectively handle these disasters considering it is the largest referral hospital not only in the country but also in the East African region.I hope that we, as a Ministry, shall not continue making this appeal infinitum. I beg this House to respond to our call with the agency it deserves. Thank you."
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