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    "id": 784555,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) S.W. Chege",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Sabina Wanjiru Chege",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, this Report is as a result of an investigation into several recurring issues that affected the country’s biggest referral hospital recently: That is the allegations of sexual assault that was in the social media and in the public domain; the issue of breakdown of critical medical equipment; surgical mix-up and the general operations of the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH). Due to this, the Committee resolved to embark on its oversight role at the hospital with a view of finding out the root cause of the problems bedeviling the facility and coming up with measures to prevent recurrence and, in the process, help the country’s largest referral hospital redeem its image. The Committee’s inquiry on the hospital started on 26th January 2018 when the entire Board and Management of KNH appeared before the Committee. The subject matter at the time was the allegations of sexual harassment, the general security situation at the hospital and the breakdown of essential equipment within the hospital. The Committee went further and made a fact-finding visit to the hospital on 31st January 2018. We toured several departments, among them the Accident and Emergency Unit, the Operations Theatre, the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), the Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit, the Maternity Wing and the Trauma Centre. The Committee also addressed the issue of functionality of critical machines. It noted that, indeed, the hospital had old, outdated and insufficient equipment that hampered its ability to deliver quality services to patients. For example, the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine that had been in operation since 2005 - for 12 years - was rendered obsolete in January 2016 hence the patients have not been getting MRI services for over a year. Only two laparoscopic equipment that are used for keyhole surgery are functional. The hospital requires four of that equipment for it to provide proper services to the patients. There are 20 incubators, but only ten are functional. Due to this, babies share incubators hence the risk of cross infections. There are nine nasal continuous positive airway pressure, but only 6 are functional."
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