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    "id": 784649,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kihara",
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        "legal_name": "Jayne Njeri Kihara",
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    "content": "on the stretcher. If you get one without a stand, you are the one to hold the drip. I did not know that when the drip is not held high up, blood is drawn from the patient. It is highly stressing to be at KNH. In fact, I wanted to write a book after spending a day there because of what I went through. You are there with an ailing patient, queuing in a clinic with no doctor. Doctors are very few. The staff is overworked. Like everybody is saying, this is the time to address health issues in this country. Our country has become a training ground for doctors who leave to work in other countries. This is the real brain drain that is affecting us. The registrars are there because they have to finish their training. Once they finish, they leave to work elsewhere. When we do not pay our doctors well, we train them and they leave to work in other countries. Look at the infrastructure, ceilings and taps are broken and empty and toilets are filthy. Like Mhe . Daktari has said, it is not just the infrastructure that we need to fix, but we should allocate funds and increase the number of staff. Workers at KNH are overworked. Sometimes they just collapse on seats while you are there waiting for treatment. It was a long night for me and I wrote a very big memo to the then Minister. So, what Madam Sicily Kariuki, the Cabinet Secretary (CS), found is actually a corpse of a hospital. There is nothing happening there. The undertakers come at 4.00 p.m. and you will find corpses lying about before then. The corpses are collected at 4.00 p.m., put in boxes and lined up. There are so many cases of rape at KNH. So many mistakes have been made at the KNH. Nobody should bother to deny that it happens. The KNH has all the problems you can think of including corruption. If you do not know anybody at KNH, you will queue for long before you are attended to. It is possible to be going there every day for a whole month without getting treatment. I lost a very good friend at KNH and before he died, he told me: “You people, why do you not get cancer machines in all hospitals?” Okay, I go there and I get treated, but I do not get treatment until I bribe. So, all the ills at KNH have to be addressed now. Somebody opened somebody’s skull by mistake. It is very unfortunate. Wrong diagnosis is reported all the time in the media. Ideally, what we should do, as a House and a country, is to urge the Government to pay our doctors well so that we can retain them to look at our health facilities and even our constituents."
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