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    "content": "This Bill seeks to achieve the establishment of a national health system that will lead to high standard of healthcare services, including reproductive health. This system will improve healthcare services if it is going to be at the county level. This Bill also defines “national Government”, “devolution” and “county governments”. As it is now, there are a lot of challenges. So, it would be nice to define these terms and clearly divide the roles between the national Government and the county governments. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this Bill will also establish the office of the Director- General of health as a technical advisor on all matters that relate to health. This will help in terms of policy development and improvement. If you have a central system that can advise on health issues, that will help in terms of ensuring that we have modern technology and expertise that will help the two levels of Government. The Bill also seeks to establish the Kenya Health Professionals Oversight Authority to provide an oversight and regulatory role within the health sector as well as continued coordination, support and supervision of activities of regulating bodies. I support this Bill because it seeks to establish the National Research for Health Committee (NRHC) as an advisory body for research on health. The establishment or development of Kenya National Blood Transfusion Service will help at both levels. We have realised that most of the time, we have emergencies at the county level, but we lack blood transfusion services that are required. If we establish the Kenya National Blood Transfusion Service, we will ensure that blood banks are established at the county level, which will help the communities at the grassroots level. The e-health and the use of modern technology approach to advance health objectives are also very critical. That will help to coordinate and improve the support that we require for our health personnel and patients at different levels. This Bill is timely. It is one of the things that are required in this country. I support."
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