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    "id": 707629,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Onyura",
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        "legal_name": "Michael Aringo Onyura",
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    "content": "medicines. We should do something to ensure that our workforce is stable and motivated. We should also ensure that the terms and conditions of service are well understood and are commensurate to the services we call upon health personnel to give. I note that, perhaps, this is not being given the attention it deserves. We strongly recommended in the Bill that we have a human resource authority or board that can address these issues and minimise the instability we are seeing by way of strikes. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I also encourage that let this be our route towards universal healthcare. That is one area if we achieved we would really have done great service to our people. You remember when we started off after Independence we even had free medical services. We slowly started bringing in charges which we called all kind of names like cost- sharing until we have reached a stage where healthcare is unaffordable for the ordinary person in the village. This is because raising even Kshs200 for registration is a problem to the ordinary villager. They will stay sick and avoid going to hospital until it is too late. I feel that we, as a nation, should work seriously towards providing universal healthcare to our people. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I note that there are a few areas where the Committee had disagreements with the recommendations from the Senate. However, when I look at them, I do not see them as being serious. These are areas the Mediation Committee should solve quickly. With those comments, I support the Report from the Departmental Committee on Health. I hope we will resolve this quickly and get the Bill through the processes for it to be assented to and become operational. Thank you very much, Hon. Deputy Speaker."
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