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    "content": "absolutely no benefit in transporting school children at night. Night travel for school children can and must be avoided and with it, we shall avoid a lot of evil including accidents. Secondly, the Nairobi-Garissa Road, especially the section between Kanyonyo and Nguni is dangerously narrow and its shoulders have been worn out. Ongoing attempts to repair the shoulders leave a lot to be desired because the contractors are patching up the worn-out shoulders using murram, making the road too dusty and even more dangerous for oncoming traffic moving in either direction. I call on the Committee on Roads and Transportation of this House in which I sit and engineers of the Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) to prioritise a visit to that section of the road and recommend and enforce appropriate action to avert further imminent loss of lives. The section where the Saturday grisly accident occurred is so narrow and made even worse by mounds of murram recklessly heaped by the roadside, making it difficult for drivers to navigate through a narrow lane, leading into an even narrower bridge at Tia River. Thirdly is the state of Mwingi Level 4 Hospital where the survivors of the accident were taken. The hospital does not serve only the people of Mwingi or Kitui County. That facility serves people all the way from Matuu to Garissa and beyond, especially victims of road accidents. The facility does not have a trauma centre rendering it unable to deal with critical cases. Six of the children who suffered severe injuries following the Saturday night accident could not be attended to at the hospital. They were referred to Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) which is about 200 kilometres away. Two of them died while being transferred to KNH. If the facility was properly equipped with a trauma centre, perhaps we could have saved those two children. I want to appeal to the Ministry of Health and the Department of Health in the County Government of Kitui to collaborate and establish a trauma centre at the Mwingi Level 4 Hospital, to effectively deal with critical cases at this facility. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to report to this House that, on Thursday this week, there will be a requiem mass for all the ten children that died before the bodies are released to their families for burial. I want to appeal to this House to see what help can be extended to these families. These children do not just come from Kitui County; we have children from as far as Nakuru, Embu and Tharaka-Nithi. Any assistance given to these families by this House in preparing for the burial of these children will be most appreciated."
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