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    "id": 444213,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/444213/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nyenze",
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        "id": 1987,
        "legal_name": "Francis Mwanzia Nyenze (Deceased)",
        "slug": "francis-mwanzia-nyenze"
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    "content": "and restructured because it does not meet the requirements of the devolved units. Something needs to be done. Therefore, I would like the Cabinet Secretary for Health to streamline and restructure the KEMSA, so that it fits in the Kenyan context. Kenya is the last in East Africa, in terms of the health budget. You will be surprised that Rwanda allocates 11 per cent of her GDP to health while Kenya is at the bottom, allocating only 4.5 per cent. No wonder people are dying in the rural areas and in poor urban areas. They cannot access medical services. We allocate very little money to the health sector. This is very wrong. Kenya boasts of being the biggest economy in East Africa yet we do not allocate sufficient funds for health services. Hon. Speaker, from time to time, everybody gets sick. Poor people have a difficult time. Every now and then we contribute money to help people access medical care because health services in this country are very expensive. Hon. Speaker, the budgeting process for the Financial Year 2013/2014 was rushed because of the general elections of March, 2013. The Government wanted to meet very many targets and, therefore, very many things went wrong. The national Government gave the county governments very little money for health services. The money that was allocated to the health sector was insufficient. Consequently, we have lots of problems. Insufficient funds have been allocated for basic operating costs such as recurrent expenditure in health facilities."
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