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    "id": 486451,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/486451/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Njuki",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1372,
        "legal_name": "Onesmus Muthomi Njuki",
        "slug": "onesmus-muthomi-njuki"
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    "content": "A hospital is a place where we are supposed to go when we are sick. It is not a prison. But our hospitals are worse than prisons. Under the Fourth Schedule, we devolved the health services and governors have an excuse that we have not released money, which we did yesterday. The services in these facilities are not for free. They collect money from the patients. We cannot miss some little money that hospitals collect to give basic support to the patients as they wait for the money from the national Government. We seriously need to decide whether these health services should remain in the hands of the devolved governments. We are losing our people at a very fast rate. What is gaining at the moment, according to my observation, are private health facilities. Most people have resorted to seeking health services from private hospitals and clinics, which they can hardly afford. They are forced to purchase even basic drugs like pain killers from chemists. There is a thriving business in chemists and private hospitals and our people are dying at a very 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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