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    "id": 787148,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Rindikiri",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13315,
        "legal_name": "Mugambi Murwithania Rindikiri",
        "slug": "mugambi-murwithania-rindikiri-2"
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. There is no concrete evidence which has been laid before this House to prove that the doctors were grossly incompetent. What has come out is that they are working long hours. Since human is to error, it could have forced the accident to occur. So, we need to urge for proper funding of the Hospital. There are issues to do with management and the overseeing board. My statement is that we need to restructure the board. We cannot comprehensively state – and it has not come out from the Report – that the board is incompetent other than some elements not turning up to deliberate on the issues they are supposed to deal with. We need to decongest KNH. I represent Buuri Constituency. I was elected so that I can solve the problems of health in my constituency. Looking at what is happening at Level 5 hospitals, and the final effect they have on KNH, it is high time this House looked at the possibility of bringing back the health function to the national Government unless we are convinced that the money we have allocated to the counties is doing the right thing. For example, I have a Level 4 sub-county hospital called Timau. This hospital is opened at 8.00 a.m. and it closes at 5.00 p.m. It is like a secondary or primary school. I argued with the county health officers and asked them whether people should not get sick between 5.00 p.m. and 8.00 a.m. They get sick even at night. We have a bigger problem, and this problem is being felt at KNH. As we debate this Report, we need to consider the national Government picking up the responsibility of providing medical services in this country. In any case, the President has stated – and we have agreed with him – that health is one of the four pillars on which he wants to leave his legacy behind. How are we going to achieve that if the counties are not moving in tandem with the national Government? In order for us to be successful in executing that pillar, it is high time we brought back the health function to the national Government. That way, we will have well-structured systems and actual allocation of resources…"
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