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    "id": 828190,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/828190/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
    },
    "content": "THAT, the Schedule to the Bill be amended – (h) by inserting the following new amendment immediately before the proposed amendment to section 5(1)(a) - Insert the following new subsection immediately after subsection (2) − New “(3) A national or county public health facility shall in the subsection procurement and distribution of drugs and medical supplies, obtain all such drugs and medical supplies from the Authority unless− (a) such drugs and medical supplies are for the time being not available in the Authority; or (b) the prices of such drugs and medical supplies as provided by the Authority exceed the prices offered by other commercial entities.” This is to rein in on county public health facilities that most of the time have no drugs simply because they have debts with KEMSA or because they want to buy from small chemists in our towns in order to get kickbacks. This piece of law is making sure that KEMSA will be the first point of call for all public and county health facilities. I am sure the Members will agree with me that people do not want to go to KEMSA because KEMSA does not give kickbacks. That is unlike when you go to Kirinyaga Road and such places. Some people in our counties even become agents for chemists. The money they are using is Government money appropriated by this House. The KEMSA is a Government entity and we must bind that in law."
}