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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mule",
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Mutinda Mule",
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    "content": "the current DCI that we are waiting for that report concerning the patient who died a year ago in Kenyatta. The report must reach our Committee within 14 days. The days have started ticking. We also looked at the issue of security in that hospital. We were told that the nurses who mis-labeled the patient were doing a hand-over and they were trying to see how many patients had been admitted that afternoon. We heard that one patient who was in the same ward with Nderitu and Samuel and who goes by the name Francis, had disappeared. We have not been told where he disappeared to. How do we know whether that patient is alive or not? Nobody is telling us. There are also so many successes in Kenyatta which we cannot run away from as Hon. Amos Kimunya has said. However, if we do not protect those successes because of our own political imagination, KNH will be a corpse and we will never have it. There is the issue of equipment at KNH. We pass a Bill every year to support medical equipment system. Can you imagine, as a father, feeding your neighbour’s kid without feeding your own baby first? KNH is our first baby. We must correct things here. From this financial year, we want a clear financial plan for KNH which was to be done by the Board. I challenge that Board. When they came to see us, only three out of ten members showed up. I then asked the Chairman what the quorum of the Board is, and he said, six. I then asked who they were coming to speak on behalf of. We sent them away. Let this be an example to all the boards we appoint in this country through this House. We are not going to appoint just because you are a friend to someone. We appoint you to be in a board to ensure that you bring expertise and change in that institution. If we find any board which is not working, it does not deserve to enjoy taxpayer’s money. I plead with the Members; if we want health care to work in this country, we must support this Report. If we want Kenyans not to go to India, we must sort out the systemic failures at KNH."
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