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    "content": "We also need to explore possibilities of reverting some of those functions to the national Government. On this one, we do not necessarily have to have a stand-off. We only need to comply with the Constitution. We need sanity. We need to sit within our counties and see whether our small health centers and our small hospitals are helping our people or whether we should surrender some of the functions back to the national Government and ask the national Government to co-fund them, so that the national Government can also bring down funding to the counties which will agree to surrender some of their functions. That reminds me that when the national Government was buying some cancer equipment, we saw some governors refusing to accede or even to sign for them and yet, people are dying within their counties. It does not make sense when we play politics with people’s lives. We also must realise that apart from the normal diseases that our people die of, we have others that are dying very slowly. I cannot understand, for instance, why we are so blind to the fact that we have many pharmaceuticals companies that are importing many contraceptives into our country. Contraceptives that have been banned in the West are being dumped into this country. Our mothers, women, wives and sisters are taking those contraceptives. We are talking about reproductive health here. We cannot allow the West to dump contraceptives in our country for our women to take in the name of family planning. It really does not make sense. In fact, we should have a situation whereby any woman who wants to take contraceptives must do it under a prescription. That is why our women are developing high blood pressure, blood sugar, obesity, generally laziness and mood swings."
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