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    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Mugo",
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        "legal_name": "Beth Wambui Mugo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I indicated this morning, through the stimulus package we are employing more nurses. Indeed, we employed 20 nurses per constituency last year, except for those constituencies which did not have enough numbers. To fill in that quota, we requested the Public Service Commission (PSC) to allow us to import from constituencies which have an overflow. I believe that is forthcoming and we will start that exercise very soon. I would also like to inform the hon. Member that from the number we received in this year’s Budget, of the 15 extra nurses, we have requested to be allowed to exchange some of these for other needed cadres such as clinical officers, pharmacists and so forth. Indeed, we have already interviewed all those cadres, and we are waiting for the authority from the PSC. We will be employing nurses very soon; they have already been interviewed. What remains is giving them letters as soon as they are cleared by the PSC. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as far as the infrastructure is concerned, I want to appeal--- I did not get enough funds for construction of any infrastructure other than the model health centre, which we are starting to build tomorrow. The Minister for Finance is flagging all the equipment to go to those facilities which are already completed. These include motorbikes, bicycles and other equipment. I am requesting hon. Members who can use a bit of their Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) to help us with infrastructure. We will appreciate that very much. After all, this is a partnership. We are also working with our other development partners like the World Vision. We have come a long way together. As I said this morning, those Members of Parliament who have extra nurses who need employment should give the Medical Officers in their constituencies the list. They can even send it to my office, so that we can have them interviewed to be employed in other constituencies in the country."
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