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    "id": 787259,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Tonui",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1242,
        "legal_name": "Ronald Kiprotich Tonui",
        "slug": "ronald-kiprotich-tonui"
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    "content": "at KNH is bigger than one person and the board. It even goes beyond the Ministry and the Departmental Committee on Health because it requires a lot of resources. The Ministry of Health in the current Budget is allocated about Kshs69 billion. Out of this, only Kshs9.1 billion goes to KNH which normally requires about Kshs16 billion, hence there is a shortage of about Kshs7.5 billion. That shortage means that KNH is unable to recruit adequate personnel in terms of doctors, nurses and purchase adequate equipment. For the Report to say that the board and the CEO is the problem… I believe the second point, which says that the board should exit and a new one comes in and reassess everyone at KNH and the top management, is indirectly proposing that the CEO should also exit. Because of the funding problem, it is not a single person’s problem. If we have Kshs69 billion and the national Government is only dealing with four hospitals, namely, KNH, which is allocated Kshs9.1 billion and MTRH, which is allocated Kshs5 billion, this gives a total of around Kshs14 billion. As for the Mathari Mental Hospital, I do not remember the specific amount, but it is around Kshs200 million. The Spinal Injury Hospital receives less than Kshs500 million. When you accumulate all of that, it is less than Kshs20 billion. So, the rest, which is about Kshs49 billion, remains within the Ministry of Health. No wonder the new CS can afford to demolish a whole floor and redo it because there are a lot of resources available! I believe more of these resources should be redirected to where they are really needed, which are the hospitals themselves, rather than the Ministry. This needs to be looked into so that the money which is available in the Ministry of Health goes directly to the provision of services and not hospitality, travelling and all those things which can be termed as anasa . Let it go to serving our people. Many issues were well covered in the media from KNH, from the alleged rape, which according to this Report is not yet proved. I saw an activist in one of the media houses explaining in detail about rape at KNH. I wonder why the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has never invited that Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) activist to even write a report so that it can be investigated further and get an actual report on this issue of rape. The issue of the child that was stolen from the hospital is unfortunate. When we do not request our immediate neighbours to accompany us to hospitals when we need help, then the results turn out to be such issues. The child who was stolen was not even a patient, but was accompanying the parents to the hospital and the father forgot to ask the security men to assist in taking care of the children as he attended to their mother and handed over the child to a total stranger. Again, such an incident is still blamed on the hospital. The issue of the surgery mix-up which happened at the hospital needs to be addressed. It has clearly come out that the mistake was made by the nurse who was attending to patients in that ward. When three nurses take care of 61 patients, who require surgery, surely, that is understaffing. This is a nurse who had just recovered from an accident. So, it is going to be very unfair to vilify them right from the management to the board. We have been clearly told that even the KNH board does not have the ability to employ anyone unless there is approval from the Ministry of Health to do so. I believe this amendment is in good faith and we need to make it in line with the body of this Report. The Report clearly captures that the biggest problem at KNH is underfunding, which should be addressed. As for the issue of personnel, the staff are overworked, stressed and cannot be able to provide services to the very best. Even all the other hospitals in the country have strange issues. One day, I took my brother to KNH and the CT scan was not working. He had a persistent headache and was referred to Nairobi Hospital for a CT scan which was done and he was given a very good report to take back to KNH. The report read that there was a growth of 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."
}