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    "id": 818222,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. That Petition from my good friend, Mr. Stephen Mutoro, is timely. Hon. Speaker, people are suffering in silence from the practice of private health providers in the country fleecing Kenyans. Not long ago, a relative of mine, and for obvious reasons I will keep the name secret because medical conditions should not be discussed publicly, was taken ill early 2016. We took my relative to a private hospital in Kisumu. For three days, the only treatment the relative received was blood which we donated. In fact, almost all of us donated blood because she was losing blood at a rate that could not be explained. The hospital could not tell us what the problem was. She spent two days in the hospital. I was advised by one doctor to take other immediate action. So, we had the option of bringing her to Aga Khan Hospital Nairobi, but that was risky because we had to fly her here. It was late in the evening and we could not get a way of flying the patient. The same doctor advised me that the other alternative was to take the patient to Tenwek Hospital, which meant we had to have seven pints of blood which we had to donate to sustain her all the way to Tenwek Hospital. Believe me, we took the second option. We arrived at Tenwek Hospital at around 11.00 p.m. and by 3.00 a.m., the bleeding had been stopped, the patient had been operated and the course of the problem had been identified. The patient was admitted at Tenwek. One week in Tenwek Hospital, we paid only Kshs42,000. But in Kisumu, I was forced to pay over Kshs600,000 in addition to the Kshs50,000 deposit I had already paid for doing nothing. I was very mad with the hospital that if my patient was not almost at the verge of death, I would not have paid that money. But, Hon. Speaker, you can see how I was held to ransom to pay over Kshs600,000. Assuming I did not have that cash or The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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