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    "content": "With regard to roads, a lot has been achieved and a lot still needs to be done. We still need to expand the road network to make sure that our people’s produce reaches the market faster. I also think this is the opportune time to look at the health sector. It is good to have free maternity health care for mothers and that is a very positive gesture, but I think it is important to really look at health in depth. Our hospitals are the least stocked. Our doctors and nurses who really should not have gone on strike are demoralized. Our hospitals are filthy and smelly. This is the time to do thorough cleaning of our health facilities just the way we did in Nairobi to Government offices which were filthy so that you could know where the toilets were without asking. I think the same focus should be directed to hospitals so that when you visit a district hospital, a provincial hospital or a referral hospital like Kenyatta National Hospital, there is cleanliness because the first sign of health as you enter a health institution is cleanliness. The moment you enter into a clean place, your confidence builds immediately and that is the beginning of getting healed. I think we need to focus on the cleanliness and stock appropriate medical facilities and supplies in our health facilities. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we also need to boost the morale of our doctors. I think 70 per cent of our trained doctors are outside this country. There is a brain drain of doctors and nurses who are all over the world. We should motivate them in order to come back and work in our hospitals. As much as free maternity care is a very good gesture, there is need to focus more on health so that there are quality services in our health facilities. In terms of electricity, major progress has taken place. If we take it up from there and keep the momentum, almost all our rural schools, hospitals and markets will all be lit. At the moment, there is shortage of electricity supply. The part that I did not hear in the President’s Address is about renewable energy. I stand to be corrected but I did not hear the President mention renewable energy as a source of electricity which is the way to go. Green energy is the way to go because the world is now heading towards that direction, and Kenya should not be left behind. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to address the issue of water for irrigation and for home use. Now that we have floods all over the country, everybody is crying that there is a lot of water and homes have been destroyed and yet I know that three months from now we will be crying about drought. There will be no food because all the water will have gone to the Indian Ocean after destroying our homes, farms and roads. We will not have water and then we will start taking water boozers to the same villages that are now flooded. We need mega dams for both home consumption and irrigation in order to address the issue of food insecurity. I think it is shameful that there are areas in this country that receive food from January to December and every month, the Ministry of State for Special Programmes has to supply us with a list of the needs per constituency of beans, cartons of rice and oil rations. It is becoming a bit expensive but it is a reality that we have to deal with every year. I think we should contain this water that is now destroying our homes by investing in mega dams. I think every leader has constantly talked about it but we have never 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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