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    "id": 392414,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sijeny",
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        "legal_name": "Judith Achieng Sijeny",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute and to support this Motion. In the past, it is very clear that the successive governments have not allocated adequate budgets or funding to the health departments. Looking at this good report, I am sure that they have gone and interrogated the issues in this report. Once approved and implemented, this report will give ease or give access to high quality health care. Once the facilities are upgraded, then Kenyans will get quality medical care. It has not been fair to make Kenyans travel far and wide, locally, regionally and internationally, to get specialized treatment when we have qualified medical personnel. They only require facilities and equipment within the hospitals for them to deliver services to our people. At times, the health personnel work without simple things like gloves, microscopes, syringes, beds within the maternity wards, ambulances to transport the needy or sick Kenyans. Once all these are provided, these diseases that spread like cancer, diabetes and HIV/AIDS pandemic, will be drastically reduced. At the end of the day, Kenya will have very strong manpower. When we have healthy people, they can contribute immensely towards the improvement of our economy. These are people who contribute to the development of their communities. By devolving these facilities, it means making the people more accountable and more involved. They are definitely going to take care and stop mishandling these facilities within their counties. Madam Temporary Speaker, let me give an example of Pumwani Maternity Hospital. At times, you may find that the facilities are so dirty, there is no water and the few toilets there are dirty. It is a pity women give birth in such a pathetic situation. As the previous speaker said, hygiene is so poor that, at the end of it all, they may end up contracting more diseases. Even with children, if facilities at the pediatric wards are not well equipped at the counties, then how do we expect them to survive? This is a whole generation which we expect to take over the leadership of the country in future. Madam Temporary Speaker, once the budget is increased, it will be very useful to the people since it will be easier to expand these health facilities, learn issues to be 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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