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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. Temporary Deputy Speaker, would it not have been good, the Constitution having allowed us a leeway of around three years, that devolution of health services would have been phased? For example, primary health care facilities like dispensaries would probably have been devolved in the first year. In the second year, we could devolve the health centres. Eventually, we can devolve Level 4 and Level 5 facilities. This would have worked very well. When you allow experience to build up, you allow the development of skills and competencies necessary to be developed. That is what the Report says. That is what should be done. We expect that when the task-force being proposed comes into being, it will address a number of issues that appear to be missing. For example, there is no provision for county governments to allocate a particular percentage of their budgets to medical services. The task-force should be able to come up with something binding like the Abuja Declaration so that, even the county governments can be required to allocate a certain minimum percentage of their budget to healthcare. It has been said that one or two counties have actually given the right priorities and they are doing the right thing. I want to say here that the experience and what we are observing on the ground is that the majority of counties are not giving the health care the priority that it deserves. 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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