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    "speaker_name": "Hon. F.K. Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "possible. Therefore, we are having problems at KNH because of the responsibility of the board of directors which, to me, are simple things that we need to look at. The equipment has not been purchased maybe because of low funding. It has not also come to the Committee to seek assistance to be able to fast track if there is any request for money. Staff at KNH are also overworked. From the Report, I am told that the suggestion would have been for the board to propose buying or rather build new houses around the hospital so that nurses do not work for 14 to 16 hours a day. Normally, people will work for eight hours and someone else comes in to replace them. However, because of insecurity some nurses and even doctors work for over 14 hours. They get exhausted but if we build houses there, the shift can be up to eight hours and another group comes in after them so that they can give effective services to our patients. As suggested by the Committee, we should assist KNH so that they can hire more staff, both non-medical staff and medical staff. Of course doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and clinicians are very few. Even clerks should be hired so that they can do billing of the hospital on time. Lastly and from the Report, there is need for us to pass this urgently so that the question of costing can be rectified. I know of cases where some people are supposed to have paid their bills and fortunately their bills are waived. The Committee should fast track that so that the Ministry can come up with a way of waiving bills because some of the patients might not be able to pay. How do we achieve that? KNH, through the Ministry of Health, should come up with a method of actually dealing with the bills that have been accrued by the patients. I am also made to understand that there are pending bills at the hospital. I do not know how true that is because it could have been made up by people who just want to make money out of the whole issue. I think we should ascertain that fact. All in all, if the lower level hospitals can work well, then we can decongest KNH so that we can make it a referral and teaching hospital instead of patients going all the way to India and South Africa yet we can do better. This hospital has enough space and facilities. Some of them can be replaced so that it can become a proper referral hospital for this country and the region as a whole. It has been a referral and teaching hospital for this country and East Africa as a whole. Instead of taking our patients all the way to India, we should take them to KNH. The cure for all these is to have a new board to deal with matters at the KNH. The management should also take responsibility and resign. In fact, they ought to have done so yesterday. I support the Report."
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