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"content": "few minutes, when one is sitting in London and another one is sitting in New York and another one is Nairobi and the patient is in India, they will solve big problems because of this. I think after spending so much money, I think the backbone is already there. The backbone is like a railway line and we have already built the railway line and now we must put the locomotives on the railway line so that we make use of it. Otherwise, it will make no meaning putting so much money. Madam Temporary Speaker, there is another area which the professor has mentioned which is research. It would also support and people can exchange a lot of data and research would be cheaper and faster whether it is in agriculture, medicine or social sciences. Before I leave the Floor, I want to advice the county governments that we are not going to have enough consultants in this country any time soon unless we invest in them. I have told my own Governor, but I am not so sure whether he has taken me seriously, that we must put some endowment fund to take some young doctors or courses which would make them consultants in different fields. I can tell you from where I am standing that there are very few doctors in neurology because I have had a problem of that nature near me. I know that it has been very expensive to get even a doctor who would advise us on neurology. Unless we invest in these young doctors from the University of Nairobi and all these other universities, whom if we took in our counties, maybe five per year and you train them in their areas of interest, I am telling you that every other year we will be getting professionals in this field and then you can bond them. You tell them that you are putting money on them, but they must work for you for five years before they go elsewhere. That way, they will, first of all, get the education, the experience and then they will move around. There will even be enough to exchange. Right now, there is not even enough to exchange. Governors are now buying professionals. The highest bidder gets the best consultant because they pay you a little more. This should not be allowed to happen. I was informed just before I came here that Siaya is one of the counties that has done the last mile. They have done the last mile through a private data laying company and they are going to connect the hospitals and the Government institutions there, of course, at a fee per month. But the banks will also get connected because the banks love this because the information can move faster and cheaply. It is not a bad investment if you put it in this country. We urge the Government to do it, but if it is not doing it the private people are going to do it. This is because there are people in this field who would want to do just that and get this thing connected. Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to support."
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