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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Moi",
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    "content": "do more at KNH. The findings which the Committee came up with were not surprising. As many speakers have said, it was issues of lack of equipment, old and obsolete equipment and insufficient equipment. If we are told that the hospital of 2,000 beds has only one MRI and that MRI was put into operation in 2005, it is now obsolete in 2018.You begin to wonder how they do diagnosis if the machine stopped working two years ago. We hear of issues of cancer and we think of children. This is terrible beyond words. All this money going to the Ministry of Defence should go to the Ministry of Health. It is bad that in a hospital of 2,000 beds, there are 20 incubators and only 10 are functional. How much does an incubator cost? In the Report, they even said that incubators would be shared by children. There is the risk of cross infection and so on. I commend the Departmental Committee on Health on this Report in spite of the fact that they did not go far enough and they did not put out recommendations that would shake KNH and all the referral hospitals in Kenya because all of them are dying. The health sector is dying in this country. We hear of dispensaries and very good names of Levels 1 to Level 6. In Rongai, seriously speaking, there are no hospitals. It is just a building there that cost maybe Kshs1.2 million. If you go in there, you speak to somebody who maybe does not even understand or have a clue about medicine. He is interested in reading his newspaper and issues political; nothing medical. You wonder how he got to work in dispensaries. These are the people who are supposed to diagnose and treat people. I do not want to get into details of what else goes on in KNH, we all know. The KNH is on its death bed and so are all the other referral hospitals and all the other hospitals in this country. The Report mentions obsolete equipment and overcrowding. Yes, we have heard of two, three or four people sleeping on one bed but nobody mentioned the fact that there could be other two or three people sleeping under the bed. We were also not told about people being handcuffed to beds. People have the audacity to stand here and tell us that the medical system in this country is free. Nothing is free, we pay! That is why when you wake up as a Member of Parliament at home in the morning, there are about 30 people at your gate looking for money so that they can release their loved ones from hospitals or to buy medicines. This is a terrible issue. Just to close because I had said I do not want to take too much time, there is an issue of lack of enough medical personnel at KNH. Before we condemn these personnel who are overworked and underpaid, what we need to do first is to equip these hospitals. Let us equip these hospitals, not only KNH but all the hospitals in this Republic. We should then look at those hospitals that are managed by county governments. Mheshimiwa Keter here has spoken about looking at the issue of devolution; whether health services should have been devolved. We thought devolution would be a panacea to problems plaguing Kenya but it is not. We were merely shifting centres of corruption. Billions of shillings have been given to these counties. What do they have to show for it? Nothing! They have again refused to give the Auditor-General powers to go and look into these people’s books but when he brings out his reports, nobody cares to do anything about them. So, what then would motivate this man to look into these accounts? He is not motivated because he does not care. Nobody will act on these reports. Year in, year out, we talk about reports and the Auditor-General. Nani atashikwa? Nobody! We talk about NYS, Eurobond and all these corruption scandals that have plagued this country, but nobody will do anything about them. There has to be political will. I speak as a parent who lost a son to cancer. For me, my son had a chance but he lost his life. For those who do not have a chance, even if they have Kshs3 million, they will not survive 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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