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    "content": "much sitting allowance they will receive? According to me, these are the kind of people who should be paid Kshs3000 as sitting allowance and be reimbursed transport whenever they go for meetings at the headquarters. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also propose an amendment to Clause 12(d) where the Senator proposes that the county health officer in each county shall designate officers within the department responsible for health. I suggest to the Senator that the County Executive Committee (CEC) member for health is the most senior person who should be controlling. The function of controlling should be given to the CEC in charge of health. Finally, but not least, I persuade the Senator that Clause 6, which is proposing to amend Section 45 be amended to replace the word “Minister” with “County Executive Committee Member.” As I have said earlier, in all the other aspects of the parent Bill, the Senator should accept that we replace that with the CEC member in charge of health. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, those are the amendments that I wish to propose. I urge the Committee on Health to take this Bill very seriously. To this extent, we will rely on them to make sure that the other things that are there in the parent Bill which are not concurrent to the principle of devolution in the country, that this is the time for us to correct them. I would like them to cast the net much wider. With those many remarks, I thank Sen. (Dr.) Machage for allowing me to go on record for being the second person to have spoken on this Bill that affects all the villagers and the rich in this country. I have many parents and patients in Kakamega today who are on Anti Retrovirals (ARVs). At this stage, I urge the national Government to make sure that the little challenges and bottlenecks that ARVs pose to patients are removed. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like us to specifically include in this Bill the need for the county government to support HIV/AIDS patients with nutrition. It is now one of the most important reasons why patients who are on ARVs will either die or live. This is because the ARVs are double edged swords. They can cut you to death if you are not eating well. Most of these people are poor or have exhausted the savings they made when they were still active. Therefore, before the county governments rush in to build homes for the aged, they have an important role to play by giving money to these people to support their nutrition on a monthly basis. I beg to second the amendment Bill."
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