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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Pukose",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Pukose",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Motion by the hon. David Ouma Ochieng. Health care in this country is a critical issue that should be put among the top priorities. When this nation got its Independence in 1963, the founding fathers of this country talked about three issues; health, ignorance and poverty. Fifty years down the road, health is not still a priority in this nation. As we saw in the Budget allocations, it was given 7 per cent, which is way below the WHO and the Abuja recommendations of 15 per cent. We are not doing well as a nation. More often, maybe if we look at it that the middle class and the upper class have access to health, but more than 50 per cent of Kenyans live below poverty line. These are people who are able to access health care within the dispensaries, health centres and district hospitals. If they have some little money, they go to what we used to call provincial hospitals. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are issues that concern these more than 50 per cent of Kenyans who live below poverty line. I think the rest of the middle class and the upper class are not putting it as a priority. There are several issues in this country that are not done well. More often, when there is an emergency you ask the public to come and donate blood. Blood is a critical issue. How much have we given to the National Blood Transfusion Service? It is nil! National Blood Transfusion Service with all its seven centres distributed across the country, is donor dependent. That is why when we have an emergency we ask people to come and donate blood and after that emergency is over we wait for another emergency then we will ask the public to come and donate blood again."
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