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    "content": "the youth getting off the drug menace and the streets, and getting employment. I want to see our youth engaged. I also look forward to seeing us have technical training institutes in each county. As a person who worked in the health sector, I would like to comment on health issues, which many hon. Members have spoken on. I have worked in several parts of this country. Kenya started off with free medical care in 1963 but, definitely, the policy did not work. We are now re-introducing it. I think after the failure of the free medical care programme, we introduced the cost-sharing policy. We were headed towards putting in place a comprehensive health plan, where people can walk to hospital and not pay a single cent. This is a plan in which the government is supposed to cater for those who are not able to pay by paying for their insurance. Under the plan, medical service providers are expected to claim money and sustain good quality services. A month ago, I lost a woman in Machakos County in a very painful situation. She was taken to a health centre in Yatta on a shamba wheelbarrow. When she arrived at the health facility she delivered a baby and she bled to death. It was very sad. The health centre was there but it did not have the right equipment and personnel. Therefore, we need to have appropriate equipment in our health institutions. We also need to have qualified health personnel who can handle complications. Women who deliver at health institutions develop complications. So, we need competent health personnel in our institutions, so that they can handle such cases. In case they cannot handle such cases, they should be able to transport the patient to the nearest health facility with the capacity to handle the case. Hon. Speaker, Sir, I worked in Nyeri at one time. We operated on mothers and transported them to the health centres nearest to their homes to recuperate and then walk home. Such a situation would be good for the rest of the country. We have a lot of clinical officers and nurses who are not employed. It would be good if they could get absorbed into the health sector and get paid well for the services they render. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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