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    "id": 838904,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Rangwe, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Lilian Gogo",
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        "legal_name": "Lilian Achieng Gogo",
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    "content": "Having said that, there are wellness clinics and we need to come out and sensitise people on lifestyle. A number of us, me included, rarely have time to exercise. We do not go for check- ups. Prevention is better that cure. Literally even at the constituency levels, people do not know that you can just go and have your blood pressure checked. I thank the CS, Madam Kobia, who came up with Huduma Mashinani. Systems were run in constituencies and the old people felt so nice and the longest line was for healthcare needs because they do not access some of these facilities in hospitals and even when they go for medication. At times there is only one doctor who stays there but not throughout and when you go to hospital, you are told there is no doctor. So, as we are restructuring the echelons at the highest levels, it is very crucial that we provide medicine for the very few who are there to use. It is very crucial that we even provide cleaning facilities. In some of these hospitals what will tell you that you have reached a hospital is the stench. How can we talk of management yet our hospitals are stinking? People are losing hope in hospitals. Children are dying in hospitals. There was a case of power going off – although I do not have conclusive evidence - and children died in nurseries. They were then put in a bag yet we are here talking about high level management and changing management systems. I think we are cheating ourselves as a country. Why can we not have generators that can sustain electrical systems from the main line? If we really want to be Kenyans, we must take care of our sick. Among the people who get so sick are the elderly who have no source of income. They just die because there are no systems in place to only take care of the elderly. We should have a hospital wing that takes care of the elderly. There are medical personnel who are very good at dealing with the elderly. We have so many cases of people hanging themselves. We do not have psychiatrists in these basic systems yet we have very many trained psychiatrists who can go to these levels and mitigate these problems. So, it is important that next time when we are doing the Budget, as much as we have put a lot of money in Technical and Vocational Educational and Training (TVET) to have our young people trained on mechanical, electrical and plumbing work, we need to put more money on training more nurses and doctors so that we send them where they are supposed to be."
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