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    "id": 448449,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mulu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1955,
        "legal_name": "Benson Makali Mulu",
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    "content": "The other recommendation which lacks in this Report is where we involve stakeholders. The health sector in this country is very specialized. There are lots of stakeholders. We have the health workers who include doctors, nurses and so on. We also have business people; people who supply things like equipment and drugs. We also have the public who actually benefit from the service. It is therefore important that even as we discuss this important sector, the stakeholders’ input is considered. I think the county governments have to some extent ignored what the doctors are saying. Most Kenyans imagine that doctors have selfish interest. I think doctors have a point when they say that they need to be listened to so that their concerns are actually considered. So, this recommendation to involve all stakeholders is very important and it should be taken on board almost immediately so that it is considered. The other recommendation which is coming from this Report and it is good is the whole issue of co-coordinating delivery of services. The Committee says that we need to start a commission so that these services are coordinated in the country. The question I asked myself is, if you create this commission and at the same time we have a Ministry, shall we not have a situation where there could be conflict? What I would propose is that, even the Ministry does coordination. I would prefer when the Ministry does that, so that everything is properly coordinated at the highest policy level. I think once this Report is adopted by the House - that is if we adopt it - the Implementation Committee of this House needs to take it up and implement the recommendations. This will be very important to this country so as to ensure that citizens of this country get the kind of service expected from hospitals and dispensaries. Otherwise, if we do not do that, we will continue suffering and I am sure that when our people suffer, even us who are in this honourable House will not be having some nice time. If we do not do that, we will continue to suffer. Even those of us who are in this honourable House do not have easy time because any time we go home people are complaining that they go to hospitals, they do not get services, they are not treated and drugs are not there. This is a major problem to our people."
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