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    "content": "Lastly, I support the Deputy Majority Leader on the issue of the urgency of addressing certain critical Bills. He spoke to the issue of the Health Bill, which is very important. Unknown to members of the public, simply because we have not done proper legislation on how billions of shillings that are given to governors for purposes of running and managing the health sector should be spent, people think that the difficulties and challenges that the health sector is experiencing in counties is because of lack of money and that this docket should be given back to the national Government. No! It is because the legislation has not been made watertight. What reason would you give, for example, in a hospital like the former Kakamega Provincial General Hospital? In this Level 5 Hospital, we have hundreds of millions of shillings that are given every financial year to the Governor of Kakamega County as foregone user fees. Secondly, the Governor of Kakamega is given conditional allocation. In all the last three financial years, he has never received anything below Kshs400 million. Further to that, he is given hundreds of millions for free maternity care. This is not to mention the County budgetary allocation that he puts under health in his budget. In spite of these billions of shillings, the amount of rot in the former Kakamega Provincial Level 5 hospital is not acceptable. I thank the wife of the Governor of Kakamega County for doing the unthinkable. She went and blew the whistle on the rot in the hospital. She visited the hospital in full glare of the cameras and demonstrated to all the people of Kakamega County the rot in the hospital, where patients are sleeping on beds without mattresses. The beds are covered with carton boxes. The billions that I have explained and which go to the Governor cannot be left unchallenged because, instead of this money being used to better 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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