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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Musila",
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        "legal_name": "David Musila",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I want to support this Motion very strongly and, in doing so, I also want to commend the Committee that has done such a good job. I want to carry on from where Sen. (Dr.) Kuti left off, on the issue of health. As we speak, the standards of health in most counties have fallen. A lot of dispensaries and health centres have no medicine simply because counties – particularly my county of Kitui – have not allocated sufficient funds to cater for these facilities. To make matters worse, the national Government previously used to open up new dispensaries every time, but some counties have said that they are not going to open new dispensaries citing lack of funds. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we devolved services, particularly health services, to the people so that they can get better services as opposed to previously, where they were getting services from the national Government. Therefore, we would expect health services at county level to be much better than what it was. But on the contrary, the quality of these services is deteriorating and I think it is high time that counties allocated more money from the money that the national Government gives to health. Ideally, 15 per cent should actually be the amount of money that counties should give for health. But as The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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