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    "id": 445586,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Mathenge",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 77,
        "legal_name": "Esther Murugi Mathenge",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I want to support this amendment. In doing so, I want to say that I think we were hasty in devolving the Level 4 and Level 5 hospitals to the county governments. This is because through the CDF we had constructed a lot of dispensaries and health centres. My view is that the county governments should actually have taken over the health centres and dispensaries so that they learn how health systems run. When we had the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation a lot of equipment, including motorbikes, was given to health centres. In a recent inspection of the health centres in my constituency I found out that all the motorbikes had been locked up, yet they were supposed to be used in giving people service. We should devolve only health centres and the dispensaries. The Level 4, Level 5 and referral hospitals must remain with the national Government. We should not play with the health of our people. If we give the county governments such a task, they do not have the capacity to run these institutions. They are not even in a position to run health centres and the dispensaries. I want to agree with this amendment. I commend the Committee for bringing this amendment, so that the governors stop climbing the tree from the top; they should start climbing the tree from the bottom."
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