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    "content": "Let me come to the issue at hand. The cost of emergency medical treatment is borne at two levels. The first is transporting the patient to the referral centres or hospitals and the cost of treatment at the hospital. I feel the cost is most prohibitive in the pastoral communities where referral facilities are not there. In Wajir, particularly in my constituency, there is no one single health facility. All we go through is to transport patients from wherever they are to the nearest medical centre, which is in Garissa. Garissa is about 700 kilometres away from my constituency. So, you can imagine poor patients mobilized from all corners of Wajir North. Those are people who survive on a stipend that they get from the Government under the safety net programmes. Most of the dispensaries do not have ambulance services. Those that are there are in a state of disrepair and there are no budgets to cater for their fuel and other services. So, you can imagine if at all there is need for emergency care, it will most be an opportunity for people in northern Kenya. The starting point is to, at least, make sure that those facilities are available in those areas. Wajir, which is one of the biggest counties, does not have a referral centre. Unless referral centres or bigger hospitals are established in the counties, we will not be able to bring down the cost of emergency medical care."
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