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    "id": 807714,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I thank Sen. Khaniri for bringing this topical issue to this House. The question I pose is; are we healthier today than we were at Independence? At Independence, we prioritized eradication of poverty, illiteracy and disease. However today, many years later, we still have the Big Four Agenda featuring health care. That tells you that there is something that we have not done quite right when it comes to healthcare. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to be fair to the pioneer governors who set up the structures for devolution. As they say, facts do not lie. If you looked at the number of health centers, doctors and nurses over the years, there has been an increase. I do not want to bore the House with numbers, but one critical measure is infant mortality, which has decreased from 56 to 49 out of every 1,000 births from 2013 to date. This tells you that there is some slight improvement. I want to convince the House that before the universal health care is rolled out – which is an area where Sen. Murkomen can help us, because I heard Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. say that he wines, dines and flies with the powers that be – can the Senate commission a performance audit on investments that have gone into healthcare? Mr. Speaker, Sir, when we were in Kakamega, the Cabinet Secretary (CS), Mr. Mucheru took us through a presentation, and the people there did not take keen notice of it. The presentation was about an integrated electronic platform for universal healthcare. If we are not careful, this is going to be another scandal, like the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS). Nobody listened to that presentation because it came after “Baba” had spoken and, therefore, their attention was distracted. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to encourage Sen. Khaniri to bring a Motion that this House commissions a performance audit of healthcare before we pour more money into universal healthcare."
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