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    "id": 677448,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Leader of Minority",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wish to request for a Statement from the Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Health concerning the recent rise in the number of deaths recorded in Western parts of Kenya. I rise pursuant to Standing Order No.45(2)(b) to seek for a Statement from the Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Health concerning a rise in the number of deaths recorded in the Western parts of Kenya particularly in Bungoma County. In the response, the Chairperson should address the following; 1. Whether the Cabinet Secretary for Health is aware that Bungoma County in particular is recording an average of up to 15 deaths in a month in each sub-location of the county. Bearing in mind that the county has 176 sub-locations, it can translate, on average, to over 2,640 deaths per month. 2. Whether the Ministry is aware that some, if not, most of the deaths are arising out of easily curable and preventable causes. 3. Whether the Ministry has conducted a community autopsy to establish the real causes of these deaths and what measures it has put in place to ensure that this situation is brought to a halt. 4. Whether it is the deteriorating services in the health sector countrywide that could be occasioning this; and that more deaths are caused by lack of proper coordination between the national and county governments and/ or because of the underfunding through inadequate revenue allocation to the counties. While health is a devolved function, the bulk of funding for health is still held at the national Government which has a very limited responsibility on matters of health."
}