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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chanzu",
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        "legal_name": "Yusuf Kifuma Chanzu",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. I want to agree with what hon. Neto and hon. Duale have said. However, I just want to give the Committee some information. Of course apart from that I want to congratulate them for coming up with this Report because it forms some basis on which we can be able to work. However, I want to give them the benefit of doubt and assume that in Recommendation 7, I think they intended that the issues that are being raised here by hon. Neto and the Leader of the Majority Party would be dealt with here, so that they can now be followed from there. Although they talk of a task force, I would have said that a team on devolution of health functions be set up to co-ordinate and supervise the reversal of the already devolved health functions, most of which have compromised health services. Hon. Speaker, I still believe that whether we are talking about the Senate or this National Assembly, all of us are supposed to be representing the interests of Kenyans at the end of day. That is whether it is at the county level the way the Senate is supposed to be doing or dealing with the constituencies. Hon. Speaker, I want to agree with the content of the Report, particularly the recommendation at the end, which says: “The Committee, therefore, recommends the reversal” and also recommendation 3 about the levels of hospitals. Thirdly, about those levels of hospitals, as I have said, there are levels six and seven. The Constitution is exhaustive on them. The Constitution requires that we debate them and create the law that can govern what it was intended to govern. Therefore, healthcare in this country is in a very deplorable condition. Of course, in some areas there has been an improvement but in others there has been deterioration. Hon. Speaker, when we come to the issue of the new Constitution, healthcare, as we know it, and as my colleagues have said, it is very important in our lives. There are a number of issues we would like taken into account, especially Article 187, because we must have the facts. There is need for medical care for every Kenyan. The way things are now, in some of the counties like my Vihiga county, there is no medicine even in a district hospital. 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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