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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. F.K. Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker for the opportunity. First of all, I would like to thank the Departmental Committee on Health for having paid a prompt visit to KNH to cover almost everything that we are now looking at; right from the leadership of the hospital, board of directors, personnel, finance allocation, adherence to standard operating procedures, equipment and so forth. Hon. Speaker, when you look at some of the problems KNH is facing, they are a bit embarrassing yet we have a very good management and a board of directors. From what we are seeing from the Committee’s Report and contributions from each Member, we need to ask the board of directors and top management to take responsibility and resign so that we can get a new board to handle some of these issues. I have been a board member in some other Government institutions and we always tried to look at exactly where the problem was. Basically, some of the problems in KNH should have been settled now. A sub-committee in the board should have been constituted to look into some of the issues. Nurses are overworked. The ratio of nurses to patients is very low. Some of them are allocated duties that they are not supposed to do which include discharging patients. These are issues that should have been solved. The problems at KNH are therefore because of the board which could have been disbanded by now. The Level 5 hospitals down to Level 1 are also to blame because some of them are actually at the county level. We made a mistake in Schedule IV of our Constitution to have given the health responsibility to the county governments because they are not responsible. For example, we have cases in KNH maternity wing where mothers have been there for six months after delivery just because some of them have pending bills. They sit there, crowd the place and make the place look like a lodging which brings a problem. The worst part of it from what I have seen from the Report which is very explicit is the procurement of equipment. The lifetime of an MRI machine is seven years. We are told that they have been there for 14 years and are now obsolete. The information we have is that they made an order early this year from somewhere and they will come after six to seven months or thereabout and we are not sure if it will be 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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