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    "id": 55705,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/55705/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang-Nyong’o",
    "speaker_title": ". The Minister for Medical Services",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 193,
        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
        "slug": "peter-nyongo"
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) Lamu District Hospital has two portable X-ray machines. Unfortunately both are presently not in working order. As regards an ambulance, Lamu District Hospital has just received a new boat ambulance which is waiting commissioning very soon. It had been expected that the boat ambulance would meet all the referral needs of the hospital. However, it has recently come to light that the boat can only serve areas within the water frontage thus leaving a gap in referral of patients to Malindi and Mombasa. Presently, Lamu District Hospital refers patients to Mombasa enroute using a Nissan Urvan ambulance acquired from Mpekoteni Hospital in 2007. This ambulance has been found to be inappropriate for use in the local road network, especially in the section ending at Malindi and requires replacement with a four wheel drive ambulance which we have now budgeted for. (b) The Ministry has just concluded signing of a maintenance contract with the supplier of the portable X-ray unit, Megascope Healthcare Limited in April this year. The maintenance contract provides a framework for payments to the supplier for scheduled service and replacement of parts for various machines in use in public hospitals in the country, including the portable X-ray equipment in Lamu District Hospital. Following this development, the portable X-ray machines will be repaired shortly. In the meantime, Lamu District Hospital has also been put on the priority list for allocation of a four wheel ambulance and a General X-ray unit in the next financial year of 2011/2012."
}