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    "id": 787190,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Murugara",
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        "legal_name": "George Gitonga Murugara",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support the adoption of the Report by the Departmental Committee on Health. The KNH is one of the biggest hospitals in East and Central Africa. It is a hospital that has a very long history of medical care. It is not supposed to be a hospital of first instance but one, where patients are referred from lower hospitals, for medicare. That is so that they are properly treated and go back in good health. Kenyatta National Hospital is a teaching hospital. This is where most of our doctors have gone through. The work that KNH has produced is highly commendable because Kenya boasts of having some of the best doctors in the world. Our recollection of history in the 1970s is that KNH was one of the preferred hospitals in Kenya. Every patient who felt that he or she was not receiving sufficient attention in the smaller hospitals wished to be referred to KNH. That is no longer the case. In most cases, if a patient is admitted in KNH, they feel they have their death knell signed. I visit KNH every now and then, especially when my constituents are referred from the hospitals down there in Tharaka. I can 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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