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    "id": 301473,
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    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang’-Nyong’o",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the hon. Member is right. I am conscious of the fact that Ol Kalou District Hospital which becomes J.M. Kariuki Memorial Hospital as from tomorrow really requires a lot of rehabilitation. When we undertook rehabilitation of 23 hospitals over the last two years, we rehabilitated the neighbouring Nyahururu District Hospital, which also overlaps with the population that Ol Kalou serves. Now, the next step, of course, is to invest in Ol Kalou. We are conscious of the fact that during this financial year, where we have plans to rehabilitate more hospitals, Ol Kalou District Hospital should be factored among those to be rehabilitated. The hon. Member is right. We know that the hospital gets an average of 6,500 admissions per year, which is pretty high and the attendance, including outpatients is about 45,000 patients per year. That is quite a high number and with a catchment population, as the Minister says, our figure is 150,000 but his is much higher than that. But that notwithstanding, with an attendance of 45,000 patients a year, I do agree that the mortuary is now small for the catchment area. We will, definitely, factor this in our rehabilitation programme. However, as you know the 23 hospitals that we have rehabilitated, it was with the support of the Dutch Government and a little bit of Government of Kenya (GoK) contribution. So, if we succeed in getting more development funds with GoK partnership, we shall, definitely, improve the J.M. Kariuki Memorial Hospital."
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