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    "id": 729931,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Tonui",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1242,
        "legal_name": "Ronald Kiprotich Tonui",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for this opportunity to support this Motion on the approval of the Budget Estimates for the Financial Year 2017/2018. I know we may have rushed in dealing with this Budget because of the limited time we have between now and the elections and before the nominations of the major parties in this country. We do not have otherwise, but to approve this Budget in time while we are still available. I want to support various aspects of these Budget Estimates and especially on the issue of health where I see about Kshs6 billion has been allocated to referral hospitals. This is welcome because it ensures our people get better health services. However, this amount is inadequate and I would have wished to see a situation where we have referral hospitals in all counties in Kenya. We do not need to have about two or three referral hospitals, but as many as possible or at least one fully fledged referral hospital in each county. Currently, there is a lot of congestion in the existing referral hospitals forcing our people to seek services from the private hospitals and sometimes their bills are quite unaffordable and our people cannot manage. The more referral hospitals we build in this country, the better. I want to commend the counties because they are running dispensaries, health centres and Level 5 hospitals in a better and efficient way, but they are inadequate to treat more serious diseases which are referred to referral hospitals. I am happy we are putting in some money for electricity connection. I belong to the Jubilee Party and commend their idea of the Last Mile Connectivity Project. No matter the status of houses, electricity should be provided, so that children from humble backgrounds and those The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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