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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": ".: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Of course, all of us watched this distressing impromptu visit by the Governor for Nairobi City County yesterday. However, it paints a very bad picture of the status of maternal health care. At what point did it become business as usual to put dead bodies in cartons, polythene bags and store them so that they could be collected, say, Monday, Wednesday and Friday yet Pumwani Maternity Hospital is possibly seven or eight kilometres away from the City Mortuary? My eldest sister was born in Pumwani Maternity Hospital in 1974. We used to be proud of this hospital. I had an occasion to deal with a child who was born with cerebral palsy because the labour of the mother took more than 14 hours. This condition is caused by lack of oxygen at the point where the baby reaches the bridge and it takes too long for the baby to be taken out. What is worse, after I twitted about it, a lady looked for my number and called me. She told me: “Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., I have seen your tweet. What bothers me most, because I was in that hospital and had a stillbirth, is that I never buried my child.” That is what bothers that lady until now. At Pumwani Maternity Hospital, when a mother has a stillbirth, they do not even bother to deal with the mother. So, this lady, a prominent lawyer, ended up with milk for a week after the death of that child. She is traumatized to date because of the way Pumwani Maternity Hospital deals with ladies who lose their children. While we condemn the action of treating the fetuses and angels in the manner that they were treated, the Governor still found many women on the queue waiting for 10 to 14 hours in labour. We are in Nairobi City County. What happens to county hospitals? I am extremely disappointed with the Committee on Health because they have not said anything. We said that this is a devolved function."
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