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    "id": 63963,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/63963/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kambi",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Medical Services",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 39,
        "legal_name": "Samuel Kazungu Kambi",
        "slug": "samuel-kambi"
    },
    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I am aware that Maralal District Hospital Mortuary cannot adequately serve the larger Samburu District. (b) The Ministry has no immediate plans for funding the expansion of the facility. Our priorities are rehabilitation of existing infrastructure and expansion of the hospital’s capacity to enable it discharge its core mandate of preserving life. The mortuary at Maralal District Hospital, just like those in other public hospitals, is primarily a holding facility where bodies generated from hospital’s operations can be stored on a temporary basis pending retrieval for disposal or transfer to other mortuaries for longer storage. Ideally, retrieval of bodies from hospital mortuaries should take place within 24 hours. If this guideline was strictly observed, the hospital mortuary with a capacity of 9 bodies will be more than sufficient from casualties from the hospital who average about two per day. To increase mortuary space for Samburu County, I have three suggestions for the hon. Member. (i) Engage the local authorities to build mortuaries for residents as they pay rates. (ii) Encourage private investors to build mortuaries or funeral homes as business concerns as it happens in many parts of the country. (iii) Push for expansion of the hospital mortuary or construction of new ones with the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF)."
}