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    "id": 531596,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Limo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Kirui Limo",
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    "content": "There is also another conditional grant of Kshs900milllion which is going to compensate the county governments to ensure that they do not charge members of the public for using health facilities. It is sorry that even though we have devolved health, most of our hospitals are still either charging people for health services or they do not provide drugs. Effectively, they are making the poor people to be poorer. When you ask people to buy drugs and yet we have allocated money for health services that is not a very good thing. It shows that the county governments have not organised themselves well to ensure that procurement of drugs is done in a consistent manner and in a way that people get drugs every time they go to hospital.We have never seen any hospital in our counties where there is continuous provision of drugs. Most times you only get the drugs by sheer luck. We want that trend to change because we have allocated enough money to ensure that no health facility cries foul that it did not have enough money. I hope the counties will come up with a very good system where they have proper agreements with service providers in a way that even when they have not received money---They should move away from the system where they are operating on a cash basis. They should have a system where they have service providers who are able to provide them with drugs in a consistent manner. This is because we want to have our people get quality service. The national Government has put in very good programmes. However, I am worried a bit about some of them. Most people listening to us are waiting to hear something about the payment for old people. I hope that allocation will be increased because we want these people to live good lives. I thank you for giving me this chance. I support this Bill."
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