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"content": "going to have a vicious cycle of people dying every other time because of that shortage of personnel and equipment such as ambulances. For example, if somebody is to be transferred from Maralal to the nearest town, which is Nyahururu, that person will die before getting there, because of the terrain, distance and kind of vehicle which is used to transport him or her. This is what we are trying to discuss here; the reality of our country, the reality of our people and what the Government should do. The Government should, therefore, come up with arrangements and policies of providing medical care and making it accessible to everybody, because that is their right. The people should be given that right because they have to have it; because it is a requirement and it is one of their basic rights. So, Madam Temporary Speaker, we need to know from the Committee or from the Government; these levels called Level Two, Level Three, Level Four and Level Five, we need to have some qualifying criteria of saying “to get to this level, you must be having this.” But according to what I have seen, they use administrative boundaries to classify hospitals to those levels. For example, when it is a location and it has no other hospital, then that becomes a dispensary. After some time, it becomes a health centre; and after some time, it becomes a sub-district hospital; not because it has equipment; not because of even having doctors or anybody else; just because of the area in which that hospital is located. But when you go into that hospital or that building called a hospital; or the cluster of buildings called hospital, you realize that there are no basic machines even to diagnose malaria; their microscopes are failing; they do not even have things like dialysis machines. You can imagine; all the people suffering from kidney diseases have to travel to Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), the Nairobi Hospital or maybe these other big hospitals. Why do we not say, through the Committee, that every other Level Two or Level Three hospital should have a dialysis machine so that instead of everybody coming to Nairobi to spend all that money, they can spend just a little because they will have not used money on transport to Nairobi as they will be dialysed nearer home? These are the things we should discuss here as we adapt the report; and I hope that the Committee is taking note of those things. Madam Temporary Speaker, we should also not be selfish. The Flying Doctor Services is a project for the rich; that one I can say. If a rich person is dying somewhere in Lodwar or is shot by bandits somewhere, the Flying Doctor Services will be provided within two or three minutes. But if a herdsman or herdswoman is mauled by a hyena, a lion or something like that, those services will not be provided. So, we are suggesting that the Flying Doctor Services should be provided to those areas which are, otherwise, further from the hospitals so that even those needy cases can be transported with efficiency to the other hospitals where they can be treated. Madam Temporary Speaker, we also have some other basic things that we need to do, whether they exist or not. There are some hospitals which do not have running water and it is like adding insult to injury. Because you find that somebody could be sick from typhoid, but when he gets to the hospital, instead of drinking clean water, the water that is drunk by the patients in that hospital will even add more microbes to their system and the amoeba will now start developing in a hospital. So, from there, you find that somebody 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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