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    "id": 787944,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I was speaking about level five hospitals and how we manage our health system generally. They say that in the absence of order, then disorder becomes the order. That is why citizens are regulating themselves by telling each other that; “if you are not a resident of this county, please, go and seek medication from another county.” As leaders, we cannot watch as this continues to happen. We need to examine the plans and implementation policies that county governments are putting in place in terms of shared resources. The thought that guides this, for instance, a very well-intentioned principle from counties is that, since not every county in Kenya has a level five hospital, they receive additional revenue to support the weight that they bear from the neighbouring counties. However, if this programme is not well-intentioned and implemented, it will lead to segregation of our citizens. When passed The Kenya Roads Bill, 2017, that is now being considered by the National Assembly – I know this because we debated it here in the Senate in the last Parliament and part of the proposals that we made were extremely interesting in terms how division of this fuel levy was going to be shared. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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