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    "speaker_name": "Hon. King’ola",
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Makau King'ola",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. From the onset, I want to commend Hon. Dawood. One would think that he is a medical doctor. That means that he has put a lot of research into this issue. The health sector in this country is wanting. Devolution of the health sector has done more harm than good to Kenyans because personally, I have visited many hospitals. When you go to Kajiado, Machakos, Kangundo and Kathiani to just mention a few, Kenyans are suffering because of lack of the basic needs and facilities in these hospitals. In this Motion, as a colleague has said, if we can move it with amendments because I have seen that the Mover has just said “consideration”, we need to think of implementation. Right now, there is a lot of money that is going to waste. We are losing lives because of misuse and lack of capacity. We have very advanced machines in this country but we have very few experts. We have persons dying because of poor diagnostics and X-rays. We cannot sit down as leaders and see Kenyans dying like this. It is high time, as someone had said, even if it means changing the Constitution and health being a national function, that we help save Kenyan lives and other lives within the region. In East Africa, all persons within the region look at Kenya as a big brother. If we collapsed the medical facets that we have, then not only is it going to affect Kenyans but a lot of East Africans. I know he has spoken about blood transfusion. At present, blood donors are only given sodas, bread and biscuits for them to come and donate. It is high time we gave incentives for blood donors and for it to become compulsory for every county and constituency to give incentives to blood donors for us to improve our blood banks. Right now, we have shortages of blood, particularly blood group ‘O’, which is the universal donor. When I look at this Motion, it is a timely one which needs to be advanced to all Kenyans if it is possible, for every constituency to have an intensive care unit. It is a good story but is it possible? If the county hospitals right now cannot even meet the needs of Kenyans, what are we doing as a nation? It is high time we did something. If the pillars that the Jubilee Government and its manifesto promised Kenyans would be required to streamline health facilities are there, the time is right now that we put more money 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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