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    "content": "why our people are suffering when the President himself has already told them that the market must be repaired. I realise that the President has got his frustrations because those he has charged with implementing certain things are falling short of doing so. This House and Parliament must use its power to ensure that we support the President in ensuring that what he has said is executed. At the same time, when you consider the amount of money that President Kenyatta’s Government has put in hospitals and see the shortcomings in as far as the health services are concerned, you appreciate that there is something amiss about the way we are managing hospitals. The Nyeri County administration has advertised for the management of the Provincial General Hospital. We want managing directors - people who are used to managing institutions - to manage hospitals. It does not follow that a doctor has to manage a hospital. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, you as a medical doctor, will agree with me completely that there is a difference between treating a patient and managing a hospital. We want individuals who have managed companies to manage hospitals like the Provincial General Hospital in Nyeri County, so that it can offer services to the people as they deserve. We want to see decisions made, such as the transformation of Othaya Hospital into a teaching and referral hospital, implemented quickly so that Kenyans can benefit. We want to have a digital medical college, which I will propose that it be attached to Kimathi University and known as the Kibaki Medical Digital Training College, so that it becomes an institution that teaches Kenyans the use of technical equipment in medicine. These are the kind of ideas that we should put forward, so that the President’s effort is enhanced by our ideas, ideals and values. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to conclude by talking about the railway again. It takes a long time to plan and build a railway. Therefore, I support and urge that instead of upgrading the railway line towards Nyeri, Nanyuki, Isiolo and towards Ethiopia, as the President said, we should be looking ahead and have a vision of how we will connect ourselves with Ethiopia and other countries to the north and the south. We should plan for the railway line towards Isiolo and Nyeri, so that by the time the railway reaches Kisumu, it can simultaneously reach Ethiopia from the other side in the next three or five years. We know that there is the Lamu Port, South Sudan, Ethiopia Transport corridor (LAPSSET) project that is supposed to cover Lamu to Isiolo. However, even if it starts from Lamu and we have a fast train from Lamu to Isiolo, there will be no connection from Nairobi to Isiolo. We should, therefore, plan ahead. We must say that when we have completed the railway from Lamu to Ethiopia and from Nairobi through Nyeri to Isiolo, there should be an upgrade of the current railway from Mombasa to Kisumu. We cannot only have a standard gauge railway from Mombasa alone and we neglect the other railway line. As we build new rail lines, let us continue building and upping the standards of what we currently use. Those with a vision for Kenya will support the President’s speech and read in detail what he proposed in the various departments that he heads. Ours is to support him and make sure that his proposals are implemented. 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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