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    "id": 857582,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Senior Deputy Clerk, Mr. Mohammed, I want the Deputy Speaker to hear me. In fact, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is the kind of matter that you should direct that the Cabinet Secretary for Health appears before a Committee of the Whole so that this House can interrogate this mater thoroughly and properly. If you go to the counties, people are dying daily. In a radius of four or five kilometres in our counties, you can have six or seven funerals in one weekend. People are dying of preventable diseases. People are dying because medicare is not available yet somebody somewhere is not doing what they are supposed to do. We have been crying about the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) and talking about frauds. This is one scandal that if looked at properly will surpass even the SGR scandal. As I finish, I urge this House that we engage in a serious conversation with the national and county governments to see how referral health services are being provided. For those who have proximity to Eldoret like my county, Trans Nzoia and others, they can go to the referral hospital in Eldoret or come to Nairobi for those in Machakos and others. What about somebody in Marsabit and Wajir counties? Which referral hospital can they go to? What about people in Turkana County? Which referral hospitals can they go to? They cannot because there are none! As we support Sen. Dullo, any governor who is in complicity with the national Government in fraudulent transaction must be brought to book. The Ministry of Health must come clean and tell us who varied and amended this contract to lose this kind of money from the people of Kenya. Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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