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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mugo",
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        "legal_name": "Beth Wambui Mugo",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I appreciate that but if you listened also to the contributions which have been made here, they were mainly challenging the health system. I think for the Chair to put something together on where we need to concentrate is also enlightening on what is there. To me, I think we are doing this wholistically because if you leave people with a lot of issues which are not factual, it will put everything in disarray, not knowing where to focus. Let me now talk about devolution and the connection with the Ministry of Health and what we can do to enhance devolution. I think what happens now is that operations are now centered in the counties. As a result, there are areas that we cannot ask the Ministry to undertake infrastructural work, because that function has already been devolved. As Sen. Kajwang said, some of these things should be left to the national Government because the counties do not have the capacity to undertaken them. As a Senate, I think that we should look at the capacity of counties and then recommend that certain activities should not be devolved to the county level. This is because if the money is moved from the national level to the counties, it will not be possible to ask the national Government to do the same function that has been devolved to the county governments. The counties are not at the same level. Some are in a lower level than others. Therefore, we should agree on what activities can to be devolved. Madam Temporary Speaker, there was a lot of talk about having doctors and nurses in Level Four or Level Five hospitals. That is why I went through explaining the 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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