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    "content": "That, aware that there is an acute and gross shortage of clinical officers and nurses in hospitals, health centres and dispensaries which, in turn, is severely limiting access by Kenyans to basic health care; deeply concerned that most Kenyans continue losing their lives to curable and easily manageable ailments; further concerned that public resources, especially the CDF, has been used to develop a number of facilities which remain non- operational due to lack of personnel; taking into account the need to meet the constitutional right of every Kenyan citizen to adequate health care, further noting that public resources have been used to train more than 15,000 clinical officers and 20,000 nurses who remain idle and unemployed, aware that the Government has just adopted a policy on free maternity services; and in order to promote the prevention and early detection of disease risks at household levels through closer and constant disease surveillance; knowing that clinical officers and nurses are the ones that operate most health facilities in most parts of the rural Kenya due to the shortage of doctors, this House urges the Government to immediately recruit and deploy, at least, 5,000 clinical officers, 5,000 nurses and 2,500 laboratory technicians; and a further 3,000 clinical officers and 3,000 nurses annually and provide enough resources for the supply of adequate medicine and equipment; and to adequately remunerate the officers and further equitably deploy them to the counties to alleviate the suffering of the citizens, and to provide curative and preventive health care services to the people of Kenya."
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