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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Oundo",
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        "legal_name": "Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "I request the Committee to basically re-look at the Report and the House to pass a resolution or put in place measures that will ensure that KNH remains a referral hospital truly. Therefore, this obviously, calls upon the Departmental Committee on Health to look at the issue in a more critical manner or holistic way. They should probably go beyond focusing on KNH to focus on the two main referral hospitals and at the entire medical management system in this country starting from Level 1 to all the way to Level 5 hospitals. Indeed by now, Nairobi as a county needs to do much more at Mama Lucy Hospital, at Mbagathi Hospital and with all the small health centres, clinics and dispensaries to relieve pressure on KNH. Most of the cases that jam KNH are to do with motor vehicle accidents, motor cycle crashes, muggings and burglary and assault. I wonder why KNH has a maternity wing yet basic caesarean section operations can be undertaken elsewhere in a basic hospital. It is therefore important that the management of the hospital and the Departmental Committee on Health look for means and ways of making KNH a referral hospital and asking county governments to invest a little more in health facilities. For sure, many of the public hospitals in this country are in pathetic situations. They are understaffed, do not have necessary facilities and do not have adequate supplies to enable them attend to medical issues and emergencies. That is why you find any person feeling unwell to a The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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