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"content": "So, we need to think about some basic things like this equipment, which must be there. Do we have incubators? How about when the power fails? Madam Temporary Speaker, sometimes when I am free at home, I take time to visit the hospitals. At one time I visited Kerugoya Hospital when there was no power in the whole town. When I entered the hospital, I could not imagine that, that was a hospital, because it was even darker than the other areas since the place is closed in by other buildings. So, what we realized, therefore, is that even the nurses, doctors and the other workers were at risk because they do not know who they were treating; you could even be treating a criminal! This fellow can wake up one night and chop up the nurse; he can even strangle the nurse because it is dark; he can even rape other patients because darkness has already settled. So, we need to make sure that all hospitals must have a backup or alternative power source; without this, we should not even call them Level Two or Three Hospitals! With this backup option, as soon as the main power fails, the alternative power source should come on, either from solar or generators. These generators should be strong enough to sustain the power needs of that hospital for even one or two hours before the normal power supply resumes. Madam Temporary Speaker, there should also be some collaborative efforts by the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum to make sure that before they install power in any town, there is a provision of a power line which supplies electricity express to the hospital so that, that line never fails even when other lines are failing. Hospitals should have power throughout, either during the day when somebody is in the theatre or in the x-ray machine. Supposing power fails when you are there, and you are supposed to depend on that power, then what happens? You just die! There are some deaths which occur in hospitals through negligence, and we need not have the kind of negligent society that we have here; we need not! The Government needs to direct the counties to make sure that the hospitals we are going to have – even if we are going to inherit them from the county councils, the local government and the Ministry of Health – should have proper equipment; they should be well done and the environment should be clean; the grass should be cut low using lawn mowers; we should not have bushes where even rats and snakes can be harboured or where the workers cannot go through. We need to consider all these things. Madam Temporary Speaker, we need to also have cemeteries in the neighbourhood. When somebody dies, you find that, that person cannot be buried in the hospital compound because there is no land. The land has been grabbed by the usual grabbers and they encroach on the hospitals to the point that they cannot even have a cemetery in the neighbourhood. So, we need to control, fence off, have the title deed, and that should be gazetted to the effect that the hospital has well defined land, that it has its own title deed and there should not be any unauthorized development in that area unless it is only through the Ministry of Health. So, we need to have those things before we can talk of the Level Five hospitals, and so on, and so forth. The other thing, Madam Temporary Speaker, is about waste disposal. We realize that we cannot keep on digging pits everywhere. Pits are also dangerous, especially when it rains; they even contain areas where mosquitoes can breed. We need modern incinerators where we can burn the waste – the remains and the like – and that can only 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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