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"content": "I saw a woman who had just delivered a little innocent child, about six or seven hours old, lying in a ward full of Tuberculosis (TB) patients. We all know that TB is an airborne disease. Therefore, that child will leave the hospital infected with TB. As soon as I left there, the governor rushed there the next day and said that I should have consulted him. How do I consult him on matters of that nature? Politics or no politics, the question should be whether or not there are such glaring issues; dead bodies, sick people, malfunctioning equipment and doctors looking sicker than the patients. Those are the big question which we must address. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, that situation is replicated everywhere. Nurses are on strike all over. If the governors took our advice seriously about the endless trips that they make abroad, the situation could improve. All of us represent rural or quasi -rural constituencies, even if you represent Nairobi, there is as much rural in Nairobi as anywhere else. When you visit health facilities, people are suffering from very preventable diseases. They do not need consultants or serious doctors; they just need a nurse to look after them. When the temperature is high, maybe it is because of malaria or pneumonia. If they are diarrhearing, it could be because of dirty water or they ate bad food. When they have incessant headaches, it could be anxiety. All those diseases can be prevented very easily yet people just degenerate and die. When someone goes to hospital with second or third degree burns, they find out that there is no medicine. They end up getting infections and die. Some people go to hospital because of snake bites, instead of being treated, they are left unattended and the leg ends up being amputated. All manner of things are going on in the health facilities. I, therefore, urge the county governments that as the Senate pushes for the national Government to wake up and release funds to them, they must also stand up and be counted in terms of efficiency, responsibility and responsiveness to the people of this country. I know of a governor who, as the hospital was dilapidated, he was away in Los Angeles, spending Kshs.43 million in the name of learning how to manage waste. Does one really need to go to Los Angeles to know how to manage waste? It is really an affront to the knowledge of Kenyans yet even after coming back, I have not seen any waste managed. The situation is replicated everywhere Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the narrative about devolution today is that of theft everywhere. However, a few governors are doing a good job. For instance, I have seen reports from Wajir County. They do not look too bad, but there are other counties that are doing poorly. I do not know what the Senator for Nakuru County will say, but the governor has made Nakuru look very attractive as you drive through. I do not know if that is a public relations (PR) exercise. When you drive through Nakuru, all the way to the turning in Njoro, Nakuru looks like it is reclaiming its former glory that it was the cleanest town in Kenya. However, there is a story from where I come from that there are some wives who sweep the entry to the house and the sitting room to look very clean, but if you go beyond that, it is appalling. All in all, Nakuru looks very good. I do not know what the Senator has to say about that."
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