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    "id": 865358,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/865358/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Nyikal",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "James Nyikal",
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    "content": "The Kenyatta University Hospital project is a move towards easing pressure on Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) by matching services offered at KNH and other large private hospitals in the country. Moreover, availability of adequate medical personnel will be addressed by the operation of the hospital as it will be a teaching and research centre. The College of Health Sciences, which was started in 2004, will be housed at the hospital. The college has four existing Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy and Public Health. The college seeks to add the School of Dental Sciences and Biomedical Engineering under School of Engineering. The Hospital will also facilitate related services and disciplines like laboratories and biochemistry. The Committee visited the project at the university’s main campus along Thika Road on 6th July 2018 and was impressed by the progress made and the capacity which the hospital will create in the health sector. The hospital is designed to be a teaching and referral hospital with a bed capacity of 600. The project was financed through a concessional loan agreement between the Government of Kenya and the Exim Bank of China amounting to Kshs8.7 billion. So far 85 per cent of the loan has been disbursed and utilised. The design, infrastructure development and equipping of the hospital has been completed and is ready for use. However, the personnel and capacity building component of the loan totalling to Kshs1.37 billion or 15 per cent of the total loan remains outstanding as it is a The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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