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    "content": "that counties are actually doing very well, with very little financial support from the budget. I want to thank the counties in northern Kenya which have actually led other counties in investing in health and improving health care in that part of Kenya, notwithstanding the very little resources that are given in the Budget. Finally, having been the Minister for Medical Services and knowing rent-seeking tendencies in that Ministry that I tried to fight and quite successfully, I know that at the national level there is still an appetite to get health back to the national level. This is because people want to put their hands in procurement, particularly of drugs and pharmaceuticals. They see that if this goes down to the counties, they are losing the gravy train. I have a suspicion that even some of our sisters and brothers in the “lower” House may be lured at the national level to be attracted to that gravy train, hence the tendency to make this awful argument that health should go back to the national level. If we look at the Fourth Schedule, which Sen. Hassan drew our attention to; we see the functions that should be performed by the counties. We, in this House, have said that budgetary allocations should go according to functions. If we were to study the Fourth Schedule very carefully, we will realise that counties are grossly underfunded."
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