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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Kibunguchy",
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        "legal_name": "Enoch Wamalwa Kibunguchy",
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    "content": "Thank you very much. I also want to add my voice on this Motion. First of all, the spirit of the Motion and the intentions of Hon. Abdul are good but the reality on the ground will speak otherwise because healthcare is completely devolved. That is where the problem will come from. Like I said, the spirit is good and the intentions are noble. However, the reality on the ground will dictate otherwise. Let me just point on one, two or three areas that I think will be a problem when it comes to implementation. One area is personnel. I will pick up from Mheshimiwa Nakara who has just finished speaking where the intentions of devolution were very good initially but the people who have been given the mandate to midwife devolution in this country have completely misinterpreted it. So we have a situation where even doctors and medical personnel are being discriminated against when they are transferred or posted to certain counties. Because they do not belong to the main indigenous groups of those counties, they are rejected. Those are the realities. The second reality is that health has been devolved. That is one of the biggest mistakes that we made with the current Constitution. Health should have and must, of necessity, come back to be a national function. Health, just like education and security, must be a national function. If we were at that level, this Motion would make excellent sense. Then, we will be talking to the Government and telling it to set up infrastructure and equipment here and there, but health being a devolved function, it might become very difficult for implementation. The other problem that I have with this Motion is that it is rather narrow. It is talking about intensive care unit and blood transfusion. I would rather we broadened it up so that we The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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