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    "id": 865360,
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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": "1.Conduct room to room inspection for compliance. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I can tell you the hospital is magnificent but lying fallow. 2. Prepare snagging schedule, checking for minor defects and organise logistics. 3. Prepare room to room inventory of all equipment and supplies. We actually did see this equipment. 4 Work on the preparations for the facility’s dry-run. 5.Receive equipment. 6.Ensure all necessary registrations as required by law are completed. 7. Prepare forward budgets. 8. Prepare for recruitment and placement of staff in other phases. 9. Facilitate commissioning of hospital equipment. 10. Continue testing the equipment and conducting dry run culminating into the soft opening with the 160 beds as I said. The Committee held subsequent deliberations with both the Kenyatta University management and the National Treasury regarding this flagship project and agreed in principle on the need to immediately operationalize the hospital. It is really distressing to see a huge hospital with a bed capacity of 600 completed spick and span with equipment lying there. Nothing is happening with a lot of departmental buildings. The university is in consultations with the Treasury and the Ministries of Health and Education on the best approach to pursue in running the hospital, be it through private-public partnership as an arm of the university or otherwise. The Committee calls for an approach that is in the best interest of Kenyans. This, however, should be expedited as already the hospital is behind schedule. The following timelines were originally envisaged but with the delays, the university will have to adjust. Availability of funds was expected in September this year. Recruitment of personnel was expected in December this year and it has not even started. Commencement of dry run is to start in January next year and as things stand, it may not start. Training was to start in January as we open and operationalisation by October next year. Unless things are speeded up, I do not see those happening. As regards the Committee’s comment that we have the best way forward, the Committee really feels that for the first time, we should have a hospital that is run by the university and not a hospital that is part is the university and part is a statutory body on its own right. The Committee reemphasises that all stakeholders in the health sector must play their patriotic and active role. County governments must build capacity in hospitals run and managed 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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