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    "content": "positive criticism that can then help, for us to be able to change the lives of our people at home, we will not achieve this. I want to give an example of the Level 5 hospital in Kisumu as the reason for supporting this Motion. It was formerly called Russia, but it is now referred to as Jaramogi Oginga General Hospital. When you get into that hospital, the smell alone can make you more sick than when you entered the hospital. The people who have died there have died because of the depreciation in that hospital and also the lack of empowerment in our people. I believe in one thing that Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale said that most people are in hospitals with diseases that can actually be taken care of at home or by just going to the chemist. So, before we elevate these hospitals, we also need to empower our people. Even while at the hospitals, if we can have public address systems in these Level 5 hospitals so that while in the hospital we can be passing messages on how to deal with, for example, common cold, diarrhea and those diseases that if we take care of ourselves well, then we can have the hospitals in the conditions that they are supposed to be. Sometimes they get filled up with patients who have diseases that had we taken care of them, then things would be different. Madam Temporary Speaker, I also look at the situation at the Nairobi Hospital which is in a very good condition, but patients come from very different areas. You will find a case where I have to transport my mother from Kisumu to come and be treated at the Nairobi Hospital. We can sit at the waiting bay for two hours and then my mother gets more sick because she gets stressed up waiting. I know very well that if the Kisumu Hospital is put to proper status so that I do not have to come with my mother all the way, then that can help her and the rest of the people. Thirdly, I also support the idea of having the sub-county or district hospitals. I look back at home and it is actually a dispensary. It has been a dispensary since I was born. If you go there, you will find a woman waiting for her child to be treated for diarrhea. A child can have diarrhea because, maybe, the mother did not take good care while feeding the child. The child drinks water that is not treated. We need to sort out the little problems that lead our hospitals to be full and overused, yet we have problems that we can sort out as families. Thank you."
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