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    "id": 561943,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/561943/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Dawood",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2572,
        "legal_name": "Abdul Rahim Dawood",
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    "content": "According to the World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations, a general ward should have a ratio of between 25-50 beds to one bed of ICU. From this foregoing, it is noted that there is a serious shortage of ICU beds in Kenya together with equipment and trained human staff. The reality on the ground is such that many ICU beds fall short of the ideal situation. With adequate funding from the relevant Government departments and other non-governmental departments, it would be prudent to have, at least, one functional ICU in each of the 47 counties. It is also prudent that we have, at least, two to serve each and every county. To that effect, the national Government has proposed and is already equipping 94 hospitals; two per county by the medical scheme which it has rolled out, which grudgingly some of the governors have not accepted though most of them have but there are still some issues with that. While we have two of the equipment each being provided to the county governments or county hospitals, we need to have in place infrastructure to take care of those ICU facilities together with the blood transfusion units."
}