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    "id": 847122,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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        "legal_name": "John Kiarie Waweru",
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    "content": "Beyond that, it is also a good time for this House to revisit the matter of healthcare in this country. We gave ourselves a Constitution and in our common wisdom, we decided that health will be devolved. However, six years down the line, we can take stock of how we are conducting affairs of health in this country. The picture of health in this country is bleak and this is the right opportunity for this House to reopen the debate on some of the functions that we devolved. Health is critical, even appearing as one of the big pillars of the Big Four Agenda by His Excellency the President, needs to be revisited and be discussed so that we determine whether we were right in devolving health as a function or wrong. The handling of health issues within the counties is, to say the least, deplorable. Our people are suffering. If you visit any of the constituency offices, especially when Members of Parliament are meeting their constituents - I would imagine that is either Friday or Monday - you will find that most of the cases that Members of Parliament deal with are issues to do with healthcare. Some of these conditions will require us to pay for our patients out of pocket. That is why I thought it would be a good time to raise the issue of us reopening the discussion on the decision that we made to devolve healthcare. I support this Motion. Thank you."
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