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    "id": 480582,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/480582/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murungi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 93,
        "legal_name": "Kiraitu Murungi",
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    "content": "Mr. Chairman, Sir, I would like to thank the Chairman of this Committee and the Mediation Committee which discussed and reached a compromise regarding the funding of Level 5 hospitals. As Senators, we have to say that despite those negotiations, we are not satisfied because there is gross under-funding of Level 5 hospitals across the country. The Kshs1.8 billion provided will not help the situation. The other day, I said that the kind of money you have given us in Meru County, which is one of largest counties in this country, that is, Kshs64 million, unless you want us to buy ambulances for ferrying our patients to Kenyatta National Hospital, this is not going to help us. The amount we require at the very minimum at the Meru Level 5 hospital is at least Kshs400 million but we have been given only Kshs64 million. Even just looking at what has been given to other hospitals, I would like the Chairman to explain to us what criteria he used to make a decision that Meru General Hospital gets Kshs64 million while the other hospitals got Kshs85 million, Kshs200 million, 317 million and so on. The Meru General Hospital caters for a very large area including Meru County, Isiolo County and other counties around us. So, we are not satisfied with the justice of the distribution of Kshs1.8 billion that was negotiated. Mr. Chairman, Sir, we are really resisting the temptation to support the National Assembly to get Level 5 hospitals back to the national Government if it is not possible to fund them under the county governments so that we can put the responsibility back to where it was before. Those hospitals were running and now that we are devolved---"
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