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    "id": 392703,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Karaba",
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Dickson Karaba",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, since I have been allowed to continue, it means that there is nothing to observe from my student. Madam Temporary Speaker, I was trying to suggest that there are some areas where you cannot access medicare when you need it. There are areas where if you were bitten by a snake, you would die before getting to a health facility. We rely on this Committee to inform the Senate, so that the Senate can inform the counties and our country will be free from some of these problems. Since the Committee has not gone to other areas to draw a comparison with what they saw in Trans Nzoia and the other areas that they covered, we will need to know what is happening in those other areas. I hope that they will come with reports from other regions, so that we can compare and see whether all areas in Kenya can be treated the same way. To me, Kapsabet, Trans Nzoia and Elgeyo-Marakwet are well-to-do regions. There are some areas where even to get a bicycle to take a patient to hospital is impossible. Some people travel on camels and patients die before getting to the nearest dispensary. Madam Temporary Speaker, there is a time that I transported a lady who was in labour somewhere and surprisingly, we never got to the hospital. The lady demanded to alight from my car and within a very short time, I heard a cry from a distance. This was a delivery somewhere in the bush and that is why we are asking: Are we prepared to handle such emergencies? If we are not, what are we doing about it? That is what is happening in our society. There are many problems that affect our people. There are people who cannot access hospitals where they can deliver. Therefore, I am requesting the Committee to come up with some provisions and policies--- When I was a young boy, I used to hear of women called “home visitors.” They would visit women and tell them about what good food to eat and what to do when they are pregnant or when they get emergencies. Today I do not see these “home visitors.” Madam Temporary Speaker, we spend up to Kshs1 million per year to train one doctor. In seven years, the Government will have spent more than Kshs10 million to train one doctor. But instead of these doctors going to serve people in areas where they come from or rural areas, they are very quick in setting up their own clinics, forgetting that the Government has spent so much money on their education and training. They set up their own clinics in towns and cities like Nairobi, Mombasa, Eldoret and Kitale, at the expense of those people who are suffering from diseases. As a result of that, we are 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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