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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, just a few weeks ago, we witnessed how some clinical officers were being frustrated and some of them were even wondering what is happening in our hospitals. We saw people dying in emergency wards especially in Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) because nobody was attending to them or, maybe, they were being attended to but due to lack of facilities, their lives could not be saved. I think if this Motion is put in the right perspective and brought as a Bill--- I think we need to support it so that we can save the lives in most of the areas. We are not only seeing this in the urban areas, but the situation that we have in the local areas and especially the constituencies and ward levels is so pathetic. Most of the areas do not have good infrastructure. People who want to access medical services cannot access them unless they travel to far away areas. Now that in most of the areas we do not have good roads, people die on their way to those hospitals. This happens especially to the mothers. I must thank the President for waiving maternity fees for women. We must realise that very many people are now turning up in hospitals, especially pregnant mothers. If we do not have enough facilities and clinical officers to attend to those people, we will have a crisis. Whereas we have allowed them to access these services free of charge, we do not have health officers to attend to them. So, my serious support for this particular Motion is based on the fact that we have not looked at how we are supposed to equip, staff and run our health facilities at the grassroots level. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as an hon. Member proposed, the effects of this Motion should trickle down to not only the county-level but also to the constituency- level, so that if you go to any constituency you find a facility which is fully equipped. In each constituency, we must have more than three health facilities in a ward. For instance, in my constituency, the only health facilities that cater for residents are dispensaries. We do not have health centres. You can imagine how dispensaries are. They are not equipped. They do not have clinical officers. They do not have nurses. The people treating patients are quacks – people who are not qualified. Patients go there because they have no otherwise. So, I support the Motion because I believe that if these recommendations are taken onboard, we will save the lives of many Kenyans."
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