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    "speaker_name": "Hon. G.W. Omondi",
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        "legal_name": "George Washinton Mallan Omondi",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. I also stand to talk on this Report as amended. I support it as amended. This Report allows us to approach this particular sector being devolved in a more sober manner. So far, we have been excited and a lot of mistakes have been done. Hon. Speaker, talking from my experience of what I have seen happening in Siaya District Hospital, this Report is just but a tip of the iceberg of what is going on. The Report talks about doctors resigning en masse and going elsewhere. If this Committee had decided to go county after county to talk to the people to see what is happening, we would have seen a gloomier position. That is because some of the doctors who are resigning now are not going away. They are going back to the hospitals and they get stranded patients there. They ask for fees and they treat the patients using Government facilities. I have a case where somebody broke his leg in Siaya. I called the hospital superintendant and she told me that a local arrangement had been done because a doctor from Moi Referral Hospital had visited the hospital and he wanted Kshs50,000 to operate on the patient’s leg. The county government at that time did not know what was happening in the hospital. I refused and I had to transfer that person to Kisumu where he was operated on by Government doctors. That cost him Kshs10,000 only. So, those are some of the things we need to know. Hon. Speaker, I accompanied the Budget and Appropriations Committee to Mexico to see how they run their system. We realized that they have a standing committee that looks at all the functions being transferred. If something goes wrong with that function, it is recalled back. I do not know why we are in a hurry. The point about devolution was to give proper service to our people, but we have ended up not giving them service. We know that most of these commissions, especially the CIC, are more concerned about what Parliament is doing and how much money is not being given. Why can they not walk around and see what is going on in the counties so that when devolution is done, it is done in a proper manner? We are getting a very raw deal! The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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