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    "id": 364738,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/364738/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ochieng",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2955,
        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move the following Motion:- THAT, aware that there is an acute and gross shortage of clinical officers and nurses in our 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 non-operational due to lack of personnel; taking into account the need to meet the constitutional right of every Kenyan citizen to adequate health care; further noting that public resources have been used to train more than 15,000 clinical officers and 20,000 nurses who remain idle and unemployed; aware that the Government has just adopted a policy on free maternity services and in order to promote prevention and early detection of disease risks at household levels through closer and constant disease surveillance; knowing that the clinical officers and the nurses are the ones who operate most health facilities in most parts of the rural Kenya due to shortage of doctors, this House urges the Government to immediately recruit and deploy at least 4,000 clinical officers and 5,000 nurses and a further 3,000 clinical officers and 3,000 nurses annually and deploy them equitably to the counties to alleviate the suffering of the citizens and to help provide curative and preventive health care services to the people of Kenya."
}