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    "id": 362944,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/362944/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gitari",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Gachoki Gitari",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. I was saying that at KNH, there is lack of manpower. We have only four specialists who can handle those machines. They are called “oncologists”. KNH has only one nuclear medicine personnel and there are 12 radiographers and radiotherapists. There is need to support and build capacity for effective operations. There is patient overload at KNH bearing in mind that it is the only hospital handling such cases and, sometimes, patients have to wait for about four months to get the next appointment. Hon. Deputy Speaker, with regard to kidney ailments, there are only 12 machines at KNH. It requires about 30 machines. Dialysis is very expensive. As you are all aware, the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) does not cover dialysis consumables. The Kenya Kidney Patient and Friends Association was established in 1994 with the aim of assisting kidney patients in Kenya. The Association has written several letters to the Government calling for aid. Currently, there are about 4,500 people who are diagnosed"
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