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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, most of the hospitals in the counties are under-staffed. We do not have doctors who are sufficiently qualified to undertake serious operations. You find that when someone has to be operated on, you either have to be moved to Eldoret or Nairobi and in the process, that patient dies half way to Eldoret. So, as it is enshrined in the Constitution, it is the duty of the Government to look at how much money that has not been devolved to the counties can be used to put up Level 5 hospitals in every county. We have also talked about putting up public universities in every county. How are we going to put up these universities without attaching them to Level 5 hospitals because they are also used to train our medical students? We could, maybe, hire doctors to run these institutions. Unless the Government is committed to the Constitution and is willing to make a step and spend money to improve on the exisiting hospitals or upgrade them, then I do not see how we are going to achieve what our President said in his inaugural Speech. Madam Temporary Speaker, when you look at these hospitals which are regarded as Level 5 or District hospitals, for example, Kitale Hospital, this hospital has been there for over 30 years and it never grows. When you go to that hospital, you find three patients sleeping on one bed. When a patient is admitted at the hospital, the doctor sees you, diagnoses what you are suffering from and then you are told to go and buy a particular medicine. So you run from one chemist to the other and yet the only chemist where the medicine is found is another small private hospital called Cherangany. So, if a district hospital like Kitale District Hospital which is serving many neighbouring counties--- why can we not turn this district hospital into a Level 5 Hospital so that it can serve the purpose which it was meant? When we were in Lodwar the other day, there was an issue raised that there are no morgues in most of the counties and yet they go along with the hospitals. One time my sister died in Lugulu Hospital and we were told that if we left her body at the mortuary there, by the time we come for it, we will find that rats have eaten her nose, ears and so forth. So we transferred her body to Kitale on the same night that she died. 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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