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    "content": "money minting sector. Nobody should use the health sector to make money. This is a service that must be provided to the people. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is this Senate that has to prove that it is a devolved function and it must work. It is not a service that only provides ambulances we see roaming all over. It is time we provided quality service. We ought to reflect on the extent we have provided health service to the people. The governors decided to run it as if it is an administration block and not a health facility. Governors are known to have made it difficult for the performance of the institutions that have been devolved to the county level. Many Kenyans are wondering if they have to go to a county referral hospital or a hospital here in Nairobi. The objective of devolving the health sector was to take services closer to the people. The Senate should ensure that before this current term ends, we look into the health sector in so far as the counties are concerned. By the end of our term, we should, for instance, have three counties that we can derive pride in. It is not about building the medical training institutions that the counties are currently doing. It should be more than that. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I remember there was an unfortunate incident that occurred in Embu. We never took it with vigour the way we have done with this. That is why it takes a personal initiative the way Sen. Mugo did. Nobody followed up with the Embu case where infants died while in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). We talked about it and left yet it was a critical issue we ought to have followed up. Finally, we also need to improve our mortuaries. Poor people need to enter hospitals and find good attitude by nurses or doctors who are attending to them. I always say character and attitude will kill our country. If a patient visits a hospital where doctors and nurses have a negative attitude and that they are not being paid well, lives of such patient are at stake. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I support the Report but it is time we sat and asked ourselves, as Senate, how to audit this devolved function. For at least one of the functions, people will remember that we ensured that the services were devolved and they received better quality services than what they used to receive. All of us here should ensure that the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) takes up this matter seriously. The case should be closed after we have known that either the doctor or nurses who were on duty are in in jail, where the records are and what happened, so that Jacinta can be satisfied that the case was followed to the letter. She will have no child, but at least she will be satisfied that her case was heard and closed. I beg to support."
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