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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Seneta",
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        "legal_name": "Mary Yiane Senata",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for also giving me a chance to add my voice to this very important Statement by the Senator for Nairobi City County. From the onset, this is a very sad thing to have happened to the mothers of this nation in the 21st Century. I want to condole with the families of the 12 infants. It is heartbreaking for such an incident to happen, not because we lost these infants, but because of the way we have kept them. When I was listening to the media, I heard that the deaths occurred on a Friday, yet the bodies of the infants were kept in a paper bag on Saturday, Sunday up to Monday. It is high time that we respected lives and our citizens. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I urge this House, through the Committee of Health, to also visit our counties. If this is happening in the City of Nairobi, which hosts the Parliament of this Republic, what do you think is happening in some dispensaries in Garissa, Kajiado, Narok and Kitale? What is happening in the other small dispensaries there? It is high time we looked at the resources that we are allocating to these health centres, health facilities and hospitals. It is also high time for us to get to know their priorities. In this particular case, Mr. Speaker, Sir, we may need to look at our priorities as a country. How can such a hospital lack a facility to store dead infants? How can such a facility lack a vehicle to transport these dead bodies to the mortuary? How can such a facility lack an automatic generator which can help in case of a power blackout? How can such a facility lack---"
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