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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kubai Iringo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. I want to congratulate my colleague and county mate, Hon. Dawood, for having brought this Motion to this House, looking at the plight of our citizens who are in dire need of health services. This Motion should have come earlier than yesterday because the leadership in Kenya has for a long time seemed to neglect the health sector especially where people who are not able to support themselves or the common mwananchi are concerned. Healthcare has become so expensive in this country in that we are losing a lot of lives not only due to lack of equipment, infrastructure or hospitals but also due to the colossal amounts of money required especially when it comes to terminal ailments or serious diseases like cancer, kidney failure and complicated surgeries. We have lost so many lives especially when we have to transport patients from far places where infrastructure is very poor and one cannot get even a helicopter to land and pick up those people or a vehicle to take people to hospital. We have lost lives which could have been saved. We have lost so many people when they are involved in accidents because of lack of blood. I can give a personal example of when I was shot some seven years ago by thugs. It took over 12 hours to bring me from Maua to Nairobi Hospital. When I came to Nairobi Hospital, it was declared that most of the nerves on my leg which was shot were destroyed and they could not be repaired. However, if there had been a hospital in Meru which could handle such a case or emergency, my leg could have been saved and I could be walking upright like anybody else today. Today I limp because of lack of those medical facilities. I support this Motion in that we need to have these facilities closer to the people as much as possible. Apart from the ICU and blood banks, even in our local places, as much as we have many schools, you will find one location with three or four schools and all these people who go to these schools fall ill one time or the other. At the end of the day, you will find some are languishing with illnesses at home because they cannot access medical care and there is no infrastructure to even take them to hospital. There is not even a single small health centre where 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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