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    "content": "personnel well. Our doctors, nurses and medical practitioners are underpaid. So, you will find that we are losing a lot of human resource to overseas countries and even to the neighbouring countries like Sudan. So, we must find ways of increasing the remuneration packages of our medical personnel so that more people are attracted to this profession. They should not only be attracted but also encouraged to stay in the country to serve their own people. Those who have already taken residence elsewhere, especially overseas will then be attracted back home with their expertise to work in our hospitals. I want to disagree with your opinion that counties like Nairobi should be excluded from this. I am not supporting your view because first and foremost, Nairobi takes care of, on average, five million people. But if you look at the number of people who come to Nairobi in search of better services, especially health services, then you are looking at roughly eight million people per month. For us to take care of eight million Kenyans in Nairobi County who come here to seek medical attention, then the kind of facilities that we have now are far below what is required. And actually if were supposed to go by the parameters that were set for counties, you know very well that Nairobi qualified for not less than five counties. Now that we only have one, we still have to build more facilities. But looking also at what Nairobi produces, it gives this country more than 60 per cent of its GDP. We need a healthy population in Nairobi so that they can work and give quality man hours wherever they are engaged. Therefore, we should sustain, the GDP level and if not, increase it so that we are able to feed and to sustain the income rates that we are already producing from Nairobi to sustain the rest of the country. To starve this county of any facilities is, by extension, directly starving the entire nation of its growth platform and that would not be good. In fact, in my opinion, I think that counties like Nairobi, Mombasa, Nakuru, Eldoret and other upcoming urban areas should not be clustered and limited with the provisions that other counties get, because over and above what they are taking care of, they have people who always visit those urban centres because of the facilities that are there. This trend is not going to change in the near future because we know that the rural-urban migration and its pattern is something that is going to be sustained in African cities over the next few years. Thank you. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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