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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wangari",
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        "legal_name": "Martha Wangari",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also want to join my colleagues in noting the importance of this Petition and also add my voice to say that, that issue is not only in Uasin Gishu County. We are doing very badly if we compare ourselves, as Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., has said, with the Abuja Declaration. We are not treating this issue with the importance that it deserves. We have had many complaints especially with the workers’ unions, doctors and nurses. We have not come up with a solution. I want to join my colleagues in asking that from your direction, the Committee on Health does an in-depth analysis of the issues bedeviling this sector. The issue of diversion of funds that are going to Level 4 and Level 5 hospitals by the counties must also be investigated. When some money is given for a certain hospital, does it go there or do we have some county governments taking the money elsewhere? Even with the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare, we have had these issues coming to the fore. The other issue is on the narrative which has been created. As we look at the issues, we also need to do a thorough analysis of the unions. I am not saying that the unions are not doing what they are supposed to do, but we need to know whether there is a deliberate effort to portray the health sector as not working; to be able to fuel that narrative that has been advanced by the National Assembly that we need this function to go back to the national Government."
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