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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Koech",
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        "legal_name": "Sammy Cheruiyot Koech",
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    "content": "few successes from the KNH. A Member has just said that we bring about 100 people to KNH but only take about 20 back in coffins. That is a wrong statement; totally insensitive. This is an institution – the only one – that was working when all the doctors and nurses in this country were on strike last year. The KNH was the only one that was working not because they do not suffer as nurses and doctors, but because they found it in their heart that this is a huge hospital and the healthcare in this country would collapse if they do not work. I find it sad that the Committee in their own recommendation did not take a minute in their paragraph to even congratulate the KNH for the successes they have achieved. We have had cases of successful surgeries that were done last year at the KNH but no one seems to notice them. I do not agree with that. When you say the board to appraise the top-level management with a view of placing the right personnel with the right qualifications in the position, are you trying to say that the board and the management that were there were incompetent? That is casting aspersions and almost making judgment on a report that we are yet to debate in this House. I totally do not agree with that. We must look at these things holistically. Let us be very fair in judgment of this board and the management of KNH. When the Report says, for instance, that the new board to come and assess the management and put the right people, and you are talking about appraising from the senior management; it tells me that there is someone who has been earmarked, possibly, to take over from the CEO who is now embattled. I want it to go on record that I am one of the people who vigorously raised the issue of impeachment of Sicily Kariuki not because there is anything personal but because I felt that she overreacted. She just came in, she did not realise what was happening at KNH and decided, in two minutes, to send the CEO on leave. I felt that was a bit reactive and very harsh to Dr. Lily Koros. That notwithstanding, let this House consider what KNH has done. I will point to the House one thing that I saw. In the year 2018/2019, KNH requested Treasury for Kshs16.599 billion. All they got was Kshs9 billion. They had a deficit of Kshs7.4 billion. If you are working in such environment, even today if you decided to bring an angel to run KNH and you still have the systemic problems that they have, you still have the shortage of staff that they have, you still have problems with MRI machines and shortage of doctors, I can tell you that person will still fail. As I conclude, Hon. Speaker—I do not want to take a lot of time—I want to say I do not support this Report. Thank you very much."
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