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    "id": 784745,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/784745/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Thuku",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Zachary Kwenya Thuku",
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    "content": "As we inquired into those matters, we realised that KNH is no longer the facility that it used to be. It used to be a referral hospital. Currently, people refer themselves to that facility for every kind of ailment. This begs the question: What kind of referral system do we have? It seems like we do not have any? As you know, health is a human right. Access to medical care is a basic fundamental human right. Therefore, you cannot chase away a patient who has gone to KNH. He has to get treatment. From my own findings, the average time for a patient to be treated from the time he walks into that facility to the time he starts receiving treatment is an average of about 30 days. I have patients who had been admitted there, and the complaint is that it takes so long before they start getting treatment. Those are the issues that need to be addressed and that is why we are talking about a system failure. As much as we want to apportion blame of the failures on the management and the board of directors, the Government also needs to step in because there is a shortage of human resource or personnel. Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) is supposed to have about 6,000 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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