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    "id": 838842,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/838842/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 196,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tongaren, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Eseli Simiyu",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 141,
        "legal_name": "David Eseli Simiyu",
        "slug": "david-eseli"
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    "content": "We must re-look at our healthcare system critically, especially now with devolution. Many counties have a problem with this health function. We should re-look at it because we know very well that healthcare does not give the political leaders in the counties political bonga points that they require so fast. We should devolve to them more infrastructure work like roads which elicit immediate bonga points, so that they can stop neglecting healthcare. Healthcare in some counties is a very neglected area. As the previous speaker mentioned, the death rate and the industrial unrest in the health sector have gone up. However, we cannot blame the counties entirely for the industrial unrest because as I said earlier, health is the most devolved function. The question we should ask is whether the resources followed that devolution. When you look at the current Budget, you find that the Ministry of Health still retains a very big chunk of the health budget. That means that the counties are starved of this money which they can use to enhance the healthcare systems down there. Therefore, I believe that those who are committed have done something about it."
}