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    "id": 445698,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Onyura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Michael Aringo Onyura",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, the Report has highlighted quite a number of issues and challenges that are being faced in the health sector. Those problems are there. It is actually true and we have noticed them. Talk to the citizens who are supposed to get those services and they tell us what is happening. Even when those services were being provided by the National Government, there was so much inefficiency. But the situation seems to be getting worse in the circumstances in which we are today. That is why, once we notice any problem, we should take note of it with a view to addressing it. As I said, the only people who feel that there is no problem, and who feel that health services are being provided well, are the governors, the county executives and, to some extent, MCAs. If you talk to the staff of hospitals and other medical health facilities in the counties, you will realise that they are demoralized and uncertain about the future of those facilities. They are confused because they do not know who their employer is at the moment. They do not know the fate of their employment contracts. They do not know what will happen to their pensions. That is because devolution was done in a hurry. Some of the policies and even, perhaps, the regulations that should have been in place first before devolving health services were not considered. So, we cannot pretend that those problems do not exist. Hon. Speaker, I want to disagree that this Report is getting involved in what can be called “power politics”, trying to take away powers from the governors. If that were to be the case, I would not have supported it. I support it because I fully support devolution and we must assist devolution to work."
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