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    "speaker_name": "Nyaribari Chache, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Richard Tong’i",
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        "legal_name": "Richard Nyagaka Tongi",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, there are many overlapping laws concerning health. We all know that health is a very key component when it comes to enhancing a healthy society. Successful countries in the world have succeeded by addressing the issue of health comprehensively. We cannot do it piecemeal the way we are doing it and expect to achieve a lot. The Jubilee agenda is to ensure healthcare is provided to everybody. To achieve that, there is need for us to harmonise the laws so that the county functions are undertaken by the counties and the national Government also does its bit. Fiscal functions must be done in a seamless manner so that nobody is affected to the extent of saying, “It was not me”. As we all know, that which cannot be measured cannot be rewarded. In most times, there is a vacuum or a lacuna in law. People take advantage of that and claim that it was not them. If that is going to be the case, then we are not going to make progress the way we anticipate in terms of providing healthcare. If we cannot fix the healthcare concerns, the country will hurt deeply. All of us have a role to play to ensure there is good health. You could have all the money in the world, but without good health, you are poor. The hospital bed is today the most expensive thing you can ever occupy on earth. We can do something to ensure hospitals are good and affordable to everybody. We should not have medical services as a preserve of the elite, which is the situation currently. When poor persons go to the hospital, they have to conduct harambee. I am sure all of us in this House have at one stage or the other been involved in harambee functions. Today I am going to raise money for one needy case of a person who was suffering from cancer. Because we are unable to provide treatment for cancer in the country, we are now forced to raise money for the family. Unfortunately, that person passed on. We have to ensure this succeeds. Even if we do not succeed in anything else, we need to fix healthcare concerns in the country. That way, we will have achieved a lot. 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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