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    "id": 666392,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/666392/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Pukose",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1458,
        "legal_name": "Robert Pukose",
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    "content": "Still on health, we have money we are allocating as conditional grants to Level 5 hospitals. This is the fourth financial year we are allocating that money. What have we achieved? If you go to Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital, things are not working because that money is taken to the county government, which does not release all the money to the hospital. It cannot budget for it. Kakamega, Embu, Nyeri and Coast provincial general hospitals are not getting their conditional grant as much as it is reflected as a huge amount. Does the National Treasury have a way of ensuring that those conditional grants land in hospitals as per the allocation? Do we have anything to that effect? If you give a conditional grant to a hospital and you want it to improve, then it must get its money and budget for it and deliver services that can be measured against the amount of money that you have allocated. If you go to any provincial hospital and tell them that you have allocated a given sum of money, are you able to see anything tangible that has been utilised for that money? We need to seriously think over these issues and this challenge need to go to the Senate. As much as you are looking into this, you need to have a mechanism for oversight to make sure that money is delivered. On the managed equipment service, the Senate and the National Assembly Departmental Committees on Health must be on their toes to make sure that we are buying equipment that delivers services and one that people can get the value to which the equipment has been bought. For example, we say that Machakos Hospital has an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and yet, the patients are still referred to Kenyatta National Hospital. Are patients being admitted in Machakos ICU since the launching of the ICU by the President? With those few remarks, I support the Bill."
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