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    "content": "As we decentralize these services by putting in place the requisite equipment and facilities, it is good to understand that it is also going to be necessary to invest in the training of manpower; manpower that is going to be useful in dealing with these cases. The problem we have in this country is that we have trained manpower. We invest a lot of money year in, year out in training manpower in the health sector but because of poor policies that results in poor remuneration of these highly trained personnel, we have flight of health skills. Therefore, as we address the issue of facilities, the matter of manpower has to be addressed concurrently with the issue of remuneration. There is no point of remunerating a medical doctor in a manner to suggest that his services are not being taken seriously by the country. There is also the issue of corruption. We might want to fail to see the elephant in the house but that is going to be our biggest undoing. If we cannot address the basic question of corruption in the health sector in this country then any attempt to decentralize these highly specialized services of chemotherapy and dialysis will not materialize. Why do I say this? It is common knowledge that the medical supply chain in this country is totally rotten. Everybody knows that the Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (KEMSA) has been taken as a milk cow by people who are supposed to be in charge of managing the health sector for many years in this country so that at one point Afya House, which is the seat of the health sector, was turned into a mafia house. If we cannot address the issue of corruption which is also a cancer, then any attempt to manage these very complicated cases of cancer and terminal illnesses is not going to materialize. Therefore, what I am saying is this: That we all need to come together collectively and confront this very grave challenge as a nation. This House must take a lead. We know for sure that health management services are not cheap and cannot be cheap. So as we invest in other sectors, we must understand that health is the primary sector that determines all other sectors of the economy. I wish to support this Motion and urge the House to adopt it so that action can be taken immediately to address this very grave situation. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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