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    "id": 364752,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Prof.) Nyikal",
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        "legal_name": "James Nyikal",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for this opportunity to second this Motion. The issue of healthcare in Kenya is a major one. I know we have made efforts but I am also certain that we have not made adequate efforts. The most important aspect of healthcare is health human resource. You could be digital but in the healthcare, a lot of work is still done by human hands and human skill. In this country, the funding of healthcare has not really met the needs of the population. The proportion of the Budget that goes to health has remained low. What had been agreed to in the Abuja Declaration is that we set aside for heath 15 per cent of our budgets. This year, the Budget we have passed sets aside for health only 7 per cent. I know there was a time when we set aside almost 9 per cent, but I do not know what has happened. We have gone backwards and now we are again at 7 per cent and the impact of this is clear. The infant mortality rate in this country was over 120 per cent in 2003. In some places it was as high as 200 per cent. That is the number of children who die out of 1,000 that were born within one year. The under five years mortality rate was also over 100 per cent. With the increase in funding over that period of time, we managed to reduce the infant mortality rate to 70 per cent and the under five mortality rate to 50 per cent. This was very good progress. We have again started going backwards because these indexes are going up."
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