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    "id": 784733,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wangaya",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13368,
        "legal_name": "Christopher Aseka Wangaya",
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    "content": "manner of things about them? For your information, those registrars are not paid. Some of them support themselves. It is high time we investigated more about the registrars. What are the solutions we can provide? We cannot waste time bashing and yet, we do not suggest solutions. I propose that we support those registrars. Can we have a policy in the Ministry of Health that says that registrars are entitled to a pay? KNH is where it is because of a failed health system, both nationally and at the county levels. It is a referral centre meant to address referred cases that are specialised in nature. Go to KNH and you will find the first line of ailments being addressed. How do you address it as a House and as a country? Look at our county hospitals. What can we do to improve their services so that before somebody comes to KNH, he/she has exhausted all the machineries within the county establishment? If you go to floor six of KNH, you will find people sleeping on the floor. What are the problems? It is a broken limb, malaria or diarrhoea; something that Mama Lucy Hospital or Kiambu District Hospital can address. Look at the staffing levels at KNH. How many nurses and doctors do we have as a country per patient? It is just a matter of time and KNH will come crumbling down. That is if the type of discussion we entertain in this House is about bashing the staff. Let us look at the referral systems that we have. You find ambulances running on Thika Road and Kangundo Road - all of them headed to KNH. There was a Bill that was brought to this House. It is high time the Government made all the Level 5 hospitals – the former provincial hospitals – Level 6 hospitals. We just have to take it head-on so that we can now decongest KNH. Let us have patients from Kakamega being attended to in Kakamega. However, this habit will not end if our discussions in this House will be just bashing, bashing and bashing."
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