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    "content": "THAT, aware that there is an acute and gross shortage of clinical officers in hospitals, health centres and dispensaries which in turn is severely limiting access by Kenyans to basic health care; deeply concerned that most Kenyans continue losing their lives to curable and easily manageable ailments; further concerned that public resources especially the CDF have been used to develop a number of facilities which remain unoperational due to lack of personnel; taking into account the need to meet the constitutional right of every Kenyan citizen to adequate health care and further noting that public resources have been used to train more than 15,000 clinical officers and 13,000 nurses who remain idle and unemployed; aware that the Government has just adopted a policy on free maternity services and in order to promote the prevention and early detection of disease risks at household levels through closer and constant disease surveillance; knowing that clinical officers and the nurses are the ones that operate most health facilities in most parts of the country and due to the shortage of doctors; this House urges the Government to immediately recruit and deploy at least 4,000 clinical officers and 4,000 nurses and a further 3,000 clinical officers and 3,000 nurses annually and to deploy them equitably to the country to alleviate suffering of the citizens and help provide curative and preventive health care services to the people of Kenya."
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