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    "id": 355345,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kinyua",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for Mathira",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Peter Weru Kinyua",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, Sir, I take this opportunity to thank you for noticing me. My name is hon. Peter Weru Kinyua. I represent Mathira Constituency in this House. This being my maiden speech, I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you and Dr. Laboso for being elected the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker. I also want to take this opportunity to thank the people of Mathira who defied all odds and voted for me. I will ably represent them in this august House. I did not get an opportunity to comment on the Presidential Speech and so, I may mix the two as I support this Motion. When we look at the medical industry and all the stakeholders, it would be prudent if we had a comprehensive medical policy, which this House can look at and make sure that we incorporate all the players. We have seen medical insurance providers going down with people’s money. We have gone to hospitals and we are denied services simply because certain hospitals do not accept insurance covers from certain providers. With all this, it will be prudent to look at this comprehensively, so that all the players are brought on board. Their input should be considered and brought into one framework to support the entire provision of medical services. We have talked of a digital Government. Indeed, we have even gone forward and elected digital leaders including myself. I find it a bit disturbing that most of our medical providers do not have any basic information about Kenyan citizens. For effective discharge of any emergency medical services, it would be prudent to have an online central data base that is accessible to the medical providers, so that when a person is taken to a hospital, he is identified by his or her name and the identity card number. The data should include the name, the blood group and other conditions and allergies that one might have, otherwise, the medical providers would not be able to provide proper medical care to patients in critical condition. We also need to look at the causes of these emergencies. You will realize and appreciate that over 90 per cent of these emergencies are road accidents. It is disturbing to know that we let the people who cause the road accidents go free and we crucify the doctors for not providing the emergency service. An example I want to cite is the road from Sagana all the way to Marwa. This road is a death trap. It has been under construction for the last ten years. This is unacceptable. As we engage in talk about having value for money for Kenyans; and this was entrenched in the Presidential Address, I think, value for money is not just attained by the end result, rather it is through the process of delivering whatever was envisaged when a project commenced. This particular project is a simple stretch of road to be done as per specifications as was provided by the engineers. Any prudent project management does not only look at the procurement process, but also the cost at which the project has to be done. It also looks at the time frame within which that project has to be delivered and the quality of what has to be done."
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