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    "id": 561951,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/561951/?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": "With this, it is only 11 per cent of hospitals in Kenya which provide ICU care. The WHO recommends that each hospital which performs surgery and anesthesia ought to have and should have an ICU. Comparing that with what we have in Kenya by recommendation from the Society of Critical Care, we need to have between 20-40 per cent of total beds for the ICU. If we count with what we have currently, it is only 0.29 per cent of what we have for 44 million people in Kenya. This leads to critical illnesses not being taken care of. It also means there is a deficit of ICU beds in the country. We also do not have equipment. We need to improve funding to healthcare. Blood transfusion is essential in the provision of healthcare particularly among the vulnerable people such as women suffering from hemorrhage during or after child birth. Children suffering from severe anaemia due to malaria, malnutrition, victims of trauma, accidents or other disasters, as well as patients suffering from sickle-cell disease require blood transfusion. Every ten minutes, somebody in Kenya needs blood. A man can donate blood after every three months and a woman can donate blood after every four months. It is a fact that after 120 days, our blood gets spoilt and new blood is required."
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