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    "id": 561981,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kubai Iringo",
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        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
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    "content": "they can rush for Panadol or any other medicine which should be a common thing in each and every hospital. A healthy nation is a strong nation and is one which can develop. Without healthy people, we cannot say that we are building any nation. We need hospitals in each and every county equipped with all the facilities which appertain to medical healthcare. Let us not be dependent on private hospitals which are just localised in Nairobi and a few other towns in this country and at the end of the day, they are there to make money. If your pocket is not fat enough, you will never get into those hospitals and if you get in there, to get you out dead or alive will be very expensive for the family. We need the Government to invest strongly in medical health support and each and every county to get all the facilities such as blood banks. We do not need to rush for blood in Embu or Nairobi so that it can be taken to Maua or Voi. We need a blood bank nearby where it can be accessed in case of need. We are losing so many mothers during childbirth and it is said many of them bleed to death. Nurses and doctors can see it but the nearest bottle of blood which can save this life is 200 or 300 kilometres away. This needs to be as close as possible to the people. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we need personnel to do these jobs. We need doctors, nurses and dentists trained. I would also propose that we have medical personnel in this country centralized. Presently, at the county level, each county is holding its own staff to ransom. When the county governments came into being, most of the medical staff were retained in the counties in which they were serving. It is becoming very difficult to transfer individual personnel from one county to another. At the end of the day, some counties are deficient of doctors and technical staff yet other counties have excess of the same."
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