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    "id": 784685,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kimunya",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "I wish the Report could have gone a little further on that. We need to get to the root cause of the problem. All those things we are seeing - the mothers complaining that they cannot go and feed their children or they have to pass through some lifts and bypass one another with the mortuary attendants and the mortuary attendants have to do their job. The mothers have to go and feed their children. What I am wondering is: At what point did we convert KNH into a maternity? This is a referral hospital. We have Pumwani Hospital as a maternity hospital. We have all those other facilities between Levels 3 and 4 which can do all that. I am not a gynecologist or an obstetrician, but I do not see any complication that necessitates people to go full time maternity in KNH. Why do we have pediatric wings in KNH? This is supposed to be a referral hospital specifically carrying out the mandate as set out in the Act that set it up in 1987 when it was made a semi-autonomous Government institution. We are still stuck up with the hang-ups when KNH was the only hospital before Mbagathi and Mama Lucy hospitals came in and those others that have devolved. Unfortunately, our colleagues in the Senate who should be ensuring that the devolved healthcare system works are busy forming committees on foreign relations and other things that are purely national and have nothing to do with the devolved system. I wish the entire Senate would subdivide itself into health committees to ensure that the devolved heath system works. When that happens, then we are not going to have people getting into KNH because they will be going to J.M. Memorial Hospital in Ol Kalou, Mama Lucy Hospital and others. We will then be able to deal with KNH in terms of its capacity for 3,000. Is it actually funded for the 3,000? Is it resourced for the 3,000? Is it doing the job for 3,000? When you are treating double, people are sleeping over one another and a nurse is going to one bed. Who of the two patients do you wake up? Who do you even tell when both are unconscious? We have some systemic problems that unless we resolve, whether we change the board or do what, KNH will still have them. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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