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    "id": 784644,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/784644/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nuh",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2840,
        "legal_name": "Junet Sheikh Nuh",
        "slug": "junet-sheikh-nuh"
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    "content": "The KNH should be a premier hospital in this country. If it operates to the required standards, nobody would go to Nairobi or Aga Khan hospitals. This is because people do not trust KNH. I can remember when we used to seriously demonstrate during those days, but now we have changed. When one was hit by a stone, you were taken to KNH. It is a dumping site. The police pick you from the road, put you in a Land Rover and drop you at KNH. Why can they not take you to another hospital? It is a dumping site. When our people die they are also taken to the City Mortuary. No! Not Chiromo Mortuary, which is a five star mortuary. That is how our people suffer. When people are taken to KNH, they do not receive any attention. We have a Committee on Implementation and this Report should be implemented immediately it is passed by this House. The Chair of that Committee must report back to this House and give progress on whether it has been implemented. We are talking about the lives of Kenyans. Health services have been devolved and taken to counties. Look at what is happening. There is no standardisation and health facilities in the counties do not work. In the last two years, health workers have spent half of those years on strike. They were not working and I do not know who was treating Kenyans. Nurses, clinical officers, doctors and even patients were on strike and some of them died because of this. If one knows you are not going to get treatment in a hospital, why should you be taken there? In conclusion, Jubilee is saying that a universal health care is among its Big Four Agenda. If that is to be achieved, something must be done from the top and that is starting with KNH. Do not tell us that when somebody messes up, he/she is from your village. I have never known that one of the qualifications of becoming a doctor is to be somebody’s village mate. If you want to be a villager, there are cattle dips, hospitals and health centres that you can run in your village. Take that person to your village instead of them running KNH, which is not “Kenyatta Village Hospital”. Lastly, KNH is supposed to be setting standards for the other hospitals in the 47 counties. We should not reduce KNH to a village hospital the way we want to do it here in Parliament."
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