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    "id": 486476,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/486476/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gichigi",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Kamunye Gichigi",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. I would like to blame the Transition Authority (TA), which was given the mandate of midwifing the transition of devolved functions; I think it failed totally. As we speak, we are heading to a major crisis. We call upon our President to play the leadership role in bringing together all the stakeholders in the health sector. We should have the governors, the Ministry and other stakeholders in this sector coming together and discussing this matter, so that we avert a crisis that is looming. Kenyans will suffer if we continue with the debate on who is supposed to be in charge of what in the health sector. Hon. Speaker, recently, I went to visit a certain health centre in my place; the challenge I got was that I had done the facility but it was not getting any medicine from the county government. I think we cannot wait any longer. If we joke, we will start driving people to their graves early because of diseases that we can prevent. I request the leadership of this country to bring together the governors and the Ministry of Health and let them work out a formula for handling the crisis that we have now. This is because if we use the legal process to take back the health functions to the national Government, it might not take us anywhere. It might also take forever. Let us look at these issues soberly. This is not an issue of who has more power than who. Thank you, hon. Speaker."
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