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    "speaker_name": "The Member for Butula (",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, Sir, I will be coming to the Motion shortly. Since I did not have a chance to say something about the Presidential Address, I would just like to say a word or two. I would like to thank His Excellency the President very much for his Address. In my view, he captured the challenges that face this country very well. I personally saw it as his performance contract drafted by himself and delivered to us in this House by himself. We, as citizens of this country and Members of Parliament, shall hold him to his word. In my view, he captured the challenges very well. The bigger challenge is going to be the performance. What I can say is that if he delivers in excess of 80 per cent of his promises, obviously, all of us will rate him an “A” performer and I am sure that many of us who may not have voted for him in the last elections will find it easier to vote for him next time. The level of unemployment in this country, particularly amongst the youth, is well over 70 per cent. In fact, saying that it is over 70 per cent is an understatement. At least where I come from, that is the impression I get. It must be getting closer to 100 per cent. As it has been said here, that is a major time bomb which we must deal with very seriously and very urgently. Hon. Speaker, Sir, coming to the Motion before the House, I support it fully. However, the issue of emergency is important. I support it but to me, it is a small aspect of the overall medical policy or medical provisions that should have been made. This is because I believe that no sick Kenyan at this time and age – 50 years after Independence – should go to a medical facility and leave without receiving treatment. It does not matter what the patient may be complaining about. It is immoral to let him leave the facility unattended. In fact, we should make it illegal for such a thing to happen. I also believe that it is the delay in dealing with the ailment of, say, headache or some ailment that may not appear to be very serious that eventually turns into an emergency. Therefore, if we can attend to every medical need, we shall prevent some of the cases that end up being emergency cases. This kind of emergency is different from, say, the kind of emergency that arises from accidents and so on. Therefore, I really want to urge the Government to look into the issue of medical services very urgently. Hon. Members will recall that even when our founding fathers were looking at the major threats to our nation, health care was among the three main issues they set out to address. That is why I said that in this time and age, matters of health care should have been behind us. So, we expect comprehensive health care provision. A comprehensive health care legislation should come to this House, so that we can deal with this matter in the way Kenyans expect us to deal with it."
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