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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bunyasi",
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        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I support this Motion very passionately. I would like to start from home by stating the challenges that we are facing in the health sector. That provides me with energy to be able to contribute to this kind of Motion in a way that comes right from my heart. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I live next to a dispensary, at about 200 meters away and I have witnessed needless deaths because of lack of attention from the nurses. Just last weekend, we buried somebody who had been injected by a guy who was only a watchman at the clinic and who is masquerading now a medical practitioner. The health sector is desperate. As I read this Motion, I begin to see light at the end of the tunnel. I think the issues relating to the capacity at the counties particularly the health sector, must not be exaggerated. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you look at the Constitution, Article 189 (1) (a) and (b), it virtually obligates the two governments; the national Government and the county governments to consult and provide assistance to the level that requires it. It is incumbent upon the national Government to go out of its way to support county governments, if the implementation of an area as important as this one is compromised. If we do not start with health sector or even education, we cannot meet our 2030 Vision. We will not be a functioning nation if we cannot devote a significant amount of money that is required in this sector. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have talked about the exodus of our nursing and, perhaps, clinical staff. Of course, it is not all a loss to the economy; there are very significant repatriates of funds back to this country that does many other things. If by investing in our nurses and clinical officers we train them very well so that other countries need them, let us continue doing so. Even if they leave the country, there are also benefits attached to it. Somebody said we should have had this Motion before the Budget was concluded and we could have all gone out in unison to vote for increased funding for the recruitment of the many nurses and clinical officers who have been trained in the private sector and are waiting for jobs, eager to work. I would say, for areas of expertise where we do not have enough, this is one area that we must open up our mind and allow inflows of others as well. The bottom line not being the employment of the people, but the provision of service that is so crucial to this economy."
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