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    "content": "In fact, there is a case of a lady we buried in my constituency in Vihiga County on Saturday. She had gone to a hospital in Kakamega when her baby had already died more than 15 hours before. The hospital in Kakamega did not attend to her. That is because Kenyans have become inhuman. I believe this is corruption where people do not wake up in the morning thinking about the input they are going to make in their offices, but about how much money they are going to make. This combined with a very bad attitude made that lady die. She died because she was not attended to and the baby had died. With modern day medicine, a woman should not die when giving birth. There is caesarean section which is very simple. In fact, some of the doctors, instead of using caesarean when there is need, do it to make money. They know that when they operate on somebody, they will make more money out of that. It is something any person can do with the facilities that we have. So, it is very unfortunate and very sad to the family that she had to die. There were some young men who were involved in an accident and went to Vihiga District Hospital only for first-aid. They could not get the first-aid and even a drip and yet, they pay tax. Everybody pays tax. When we put this into law which will help our people to access those facilities, it will be very encouraging. There is need for a lot of improvement because we are doing it in a rush to tame a certain situation. I believe with time, we should improve on this. We should begin with the 47 counties. We have some projects which were started some time back and have stalled. The Government is now saying it does not have enough funds. We are not 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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