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    "id": 603763,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/603763/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wamunyinyi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 291,
        "legal_name": "Athanas Misiko Wafula Wamunyinyi",
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    "content": "Health being as important as it is, there has not been coordination between the two levels of government and particularly the management of health services in the rural areas. If you do anything at the health centre or dispensary in my county, you will be said to be interfering with devolution. It is like this is a preserve of the county government, but while this is so, dispensaries have been abandoned. They are in dire state. They do not have medicine and services are not provided. Some of them are not functional. The county government is not doing anything at the expense of mwananchi. The mwananchi is not benefitting. For instance, in Samoya dispensary in my constituency, nothing is happening. These facilities were constructed through the CDF to completion and the county government has not done anything to operationalise them. If this Bill is passed, it is going to create conditions for the harmonisation and formulation of policy that will ensure that there is coordination between the two levels of Government and no function is left in abeyance. There are many professionals within the health sector and unless there is coordination and the law is streamlined to ensure that their roles and functions are clearly stated and how they relate with the other professionals in the health sector, it is going to cause undesirable conflict. These are issues that I wanted to clearly stress. I support this Bill because it is important to me when these issues are addressed. With these few remarks, I can see that the Leader of the Minority Party is warming up. I want to end by saying that I support the Bill. Thank you very much."
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