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    "id": 353238,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/353238/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon.Wakhungu",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for Kiminini",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1889,
        "legal_name": "Chrisantus Wamalwa Wakhungu",
        "slug": "chrisantus-wamalwa-wakhungu"
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    "content": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, my point of information is that the President said in his Speech that he will abolish fees currently charged by public dispensaries and health centres for maternity cases. He put this in a very clever way. I am seated here with the former Director of Medical Services (DMS). The President does not say that, that fee will be abolished in hospitals. He said that the fee will be abolished in dispensaries and health centres because in the medical fraternity, there is a way of classifying health facilities. So, when you talk about a dispensary, you are talking about health facilities in the villages or at the locational level. These facilities cannot manage to offer even maternity services. A facility like Pumwani is exempted from being a dispensary or a health centre. So, we were being misled hon. Members. This is because if you go to Kenyatta National Hospital, you will find that it is a referral hospital in Level 6. Moi Referral Hospital is also in Level 6. We also have county referral hospitals. So, there is a distinction between a dispensary and a health centre. The ones in the village cannot even offer cesarean services. At least, that is clarified. The Jubilee Government has misled us on this matter."
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