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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Munyes",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Kiyonga Munyes",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to start by thanking the Mover and seconder of this Motion. I am also a Member of the Committee on Health, Labour and Social Welfare. Mr. Speaker, Sir, many counties suffer from inadequate health services, and I want to cite my own county, Turkana, which is 77,000 square kilometres with a population of 800,000, who hardly get adequate medical services. If these facilities are established in the 47 counties, especially my county, they will definitely alleviate healthcare problems in those counties. My county is one of those counties which border other countries, with a porous international border. This border comes with problems. There are diseases that are brought by people crossing from other countries. We have cases of Polio, Hydatid, Kala-azar, a very strange disease that affects pastoralists in West Pokot, Turkana and other borders. When we respond to these problems, it is difficult to mobilize doctors from Nairobi to serve Kenyans along those borders. These are the same areas which suffer numerous problems of diseases that actually affect them as a result of poverty, famine and starvation. I know of cases where cholera spreads in some of these areas and sweeps so many people. We have had to lose so many lives as a result of lack of attention and adequate services to our people. We need to establish these Level 5 hospitals in the 47 counties. I think that we also need the Level 4 hospitals in all counties, which my friend, Sen. Wetangula, says may not be appropriate in some counties. I would imagine that in a county like Trans Nzoia which looks smaller, there are so many people who require those services. Therefore, it will not do any harm to have so many Level 4 hospitals in those areas. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we, in Turkana County, decided to have ambulances in each sub-county, to alleviate the problem of referrals affecting our county. This is something The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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