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    "speaker_name": "Hon. F.K. Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise to support the Motion, one, because we have facilities out there built through CDF. In fact, I do not know what to do with them because we do not have personnel to man those facilities in my constituency. They are very good facilities, three of them, complete and furnished, but I do not have the personnel. That is why I support this Motion. I support the Motion because I want the Government to immediately, as requested by hon. Ochieng, employ nurses and clinical officers who are out there. I know for sure that in all our respective places, we have young men and women who are not employed and yet, we have facilities that are yearning for those kind of services. The major reason is because of poor deployment of staff. As the Mover mentioned - and I agree with him - we have cases where we have more than 600 nurses in one county and yet, in his Siaya County, he has only 165 nurses. The neighbouring Bungoma County has over 600 nurses. The Government should go back to the drawing board and deploy those officers to the needy areas, particularly, Kwanza Constituency where I have three well furnished health facilities, but nobody mans them. The other day, we lost an old lady because there was nobody in one of the facilities. From there, you go as far as Kitale, which is almost 50 kilometres away. That is not possible at night and so, we lost that life. I know for sure that the problem that we have in this country is that we train our nurses, clinical officers and doctors and they leave the country. I went to Namibia three years ago and I was surprised that there is a package there to woo our nurses. I was surprised to find over 110 nurses from Kenya working there. That is because they have better facilities. They have very good benefits. So, much as we also want to have our Government employing more medical personnel, we should also look at their benefits. They are poorly remunerated. The other thing is that we have facilities out there and as the amendment was moved this morning, we also need laboratory technicians. Patients go to clinics and they cannot be diagnosed to find out what illness they are suffering from. I want to support the fact that laboratory technicians should be employed. There is no need to take somebody to a dispensary who is suffering from Malaria and he is given the wrong prescription. One Member mentioned a case where a patient was given the wrong prescription. That is because the few who are there are frustrated. They work for 24 hours and they are likely to give the wrong prescriptions. It is high time the Government got its priorities right. I support the amendment. Instead of spending money on laptops and irrigation - and the"
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