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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) R.K. Nyamai",
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        "legal_name": "Rachael Kaki Nyamai",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. I beg to move the following Motion:- THAT, pursuant to Standing Order No.216(5), this House adopts the Report of the Departmental Committee on Health on Devolution of Health Services, laid on the Table of this House on Thursday, 20th March 2014. I would like to thank the Members of the Parliamentary Committee on Health for the effort they put in coming up with this Report. In Moving this Motion, I will start by referring to Article 43(1) of the Constitution which provides that every person has a right to the highest attainable standard of health, which includes the right to health care including reproductive health. Further to this, Article 186 spells out that the respective functions and powers of national and county governments are set out in Schedule Four of the Constitution. Going by this therefore, the devolved health functions as per the Constitution include county health services and pharmacies, ambulance services and promotion of primary health care. I would like from the outset to state that the Parliamentary Committee on Health, just as this House, fully supports devolution of health services as per the Constitution. However, the Committee highly disapproves the manner in which devolution of critical services was done. Within the first two months of the constitution of this Committee, it was faced with some of the consequences of haphazard devolution of health services. In July 2013, the Committee received news of a planned strike by various health workers ranging from doctors, nurses and other health professionals. Together with the Ministry of Health, the Committee moved in swiftly to call an all inclusive stakeholders consultative forum that brought together health workers unions’ representatives, Ministry of Health, Treasury, the Transition Authority, the Commission for the Implementation of the Constitution and Commission for Revenue Allocation. It is through this Committee’s intervention, together with the Ministry that the first strike that was scheduled for July 2013 was forestalled, a bit temporarily though. There was assurance to the aggrieved health workers that their grievances would be addressed. The County Governments Act 2011, Section 7 is charged with various functions including:-"
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