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    "id": 603767,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nyenze",
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        "legal_name": "Francis Mwanzia Nyenze (Deceased)",
        "slug": "francis-mwanzia-nyenze"
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me this chance to contribute to this very important landmark Bill, which I support. I want to take very little time because we have two other very important Bills. This Bill is timely. The only input that I wanted to add is that health was devolved to the county governments. As my colleagues have said, there is a lot of suffering in most counties. I have discussed this with very many Members of the National Assembly. Most of the CDF funded dispensaries have no staff, leave along medicines. They are complete, but the county governments complain that they do not have enough money to post nurses and clinical officers to run them. In Kitui County, the whole of Mwingi, Kitui West and Kitui Rural, there are many CDF funded dispensaries with no staff and people cannot get medical care in these dispensaries. Hospitals like the Kitui General Hospital and many other hospitals in this country, there is no medicine and the poor patients are given prescriptions to buy medicine from pharmacists. This should be addressed. Part VI of the Bill deals with traditional medicine. The Bill comes at the right time because Africa marks the African Traditional Medicine Day on 31st August every year. African Governments have realised the importance of traditional medicine. The Bill fails to address a very important issue about herbal medicine. There many herbalists calling themselves doctors and they advertise in the media that they treat all kinds of diseases. Very many Kenyans are 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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