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    "id": 379188,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Melly",
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Kipkemboi Melly",
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    "content": "Secondly, I would like to say that our people are poor and this is a fact. If the Government at any given time will offer free medical services to all people in this country, then that will be the beginning of the transformation of the lives of our people. At the end of the day, most people at home cannot afford healthcare in any other hospital except in a district hospital. We have a situation where most of our doctors serve in more than one hospital. You will find that a doctor is employed to serve in a public hospital but he serves in more than three other private hospitals yet the Government is paying him or her. At the end of the day, patients come in but there is nobody to attend to them, not because the Government lacks capacity, but doctors are involved with other employments. For example, last month our deputy governor was in a critical condition and we took him to Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital but we did not find any doctor to attend to him. We had to take immediate measures to ensure that we refer our deputy governor to Nairobi in a private hospital. We have hired people but they are not serving in those hospitals."
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