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    "id": 598343,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wetangula",
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        "id": 3036,
        "legal_name": "Timothy Wanyonyi Wetangula",
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    "content": "We also need to look at why hospitals are reluctant to admit accident victims. The first thing they do is to demand for a deposit before somebody is admitted. We need the Government to change the policy on healthcare so that it is not a preserve of the rich. It should be for all Kenyans. If somebody is injured regardless of his or her situation in life and goes to a hospital with an emergency they should be attended to. Once their lives have been saved, they can then look at other things later. We understand sometimes that it is the systems that we have in place that have brought about emergencies not being treated as such. Hon. (Prof.) Nyikal has mentioned that most injuries happen along the way from the scene of the accident to the hospital because of the way they are handled. Sometimes, a person is transported in a pickup or in vehicles that do not have facilities to handle that person. So, in the process, the injury is aggravated. When patients end up in hospital, what transpires from the time the patient arrives in hospital to the time they are attended to is what determines the life of that person. The person can either die or be saved at that point. In other places, when there is an emergency, once you hear the siren of the ambulance while on the road, everybody is supposed to clear the way. The way our roads are constructed does not provide a lane for emergency vehicles. We need to have a lane that is specifically reserved for emergency vehicles. In a traffic jam, sometimes, the roads are so packed such that it takes too much time for an ambulance to get to a hospital. That is why we need to re-look at the way we construct our roads so that we create specific lanes for emergency vehicles. They must be reserved for that so that when there is an emergency, people can be rushed to hospital at a very fast rate without any delay. With proper training, equipment, facilities and change of our healthcare policy, many lives will be saved. Healthcare should not be a preserve of the rich. It should be accessible to all as provided and enshrined in our Constitution. I support this Motion."
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