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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kanyua",
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        "legal_name": "Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua",
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    "content": "devolution, we have heard of many functions that were devolved. Education was luckily in the constitutional review process, very much in the fore, and so it was not devolved as much as was required then. This is because primary schools would be handled by county assemblies and county governments. On matters of health, I think it is very regrettable that health professionals in our country did not engage in as much a conversation on devolution of heath as they did in relation to education sector. As we speak now, the only report that we have had in terms of looking at where devolution of matters of health is, is the one that hon. (Ms.) Nyamai and her Committee have brought to this House. I do support that Report. I also want to regret very much that the Transition period of three years that was supposed to be given for matters of health to be devolved was not applied at the time of devolving them. What we have seen is a situation where all health matters and functions that are supposed to be devolved gradually were devolved at once. I remember the Chairperson of the Transition Authority saying that what we had was a free fall. In that free fall health matters fell freely. Today we have got a chance to look at whether this was the right way to go. I speak also as somebody who comes from a county with a Level 5 hospital, and also as somebody who is a lawyer. A lot of silence exists in relation to matters of health. If you look at the question of Level 5 hospitals, you find that the Constitution does define national referral hospitals to be Kenyatta National Hospital and Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital. Beyond that there is only the definition of county health facilities, which does not define which levels of health facilities will actually go to the counties. What the Committee has done is to look at the health facilities in this country and tried to define what should go to the national Government and what should go to the counties. We still have the question of regional referral hospitals that needs to be answered."
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