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    "id": 865365,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/865365/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Keiyo North, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. James Murgor",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1754,
        "legal_name": "James Kipkosgei Murgor",
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    "content": "sees the Kenyatta University Teaching and Referral Hospital and the Nairobi Hospital, he would think that the Nairobi Hospital is a nursing home. It is a beautiful hospital. When we went inside to various areas and toured the hospital fully, we saw a hospital which is fully-equipped. The wards and clinics are fully equipped. Other departments like radiology, the laboratories, the renal unit and the ICU are all fully-equipped. This is a fully-equipped hospital. The cost was just Kshs8.7 billion. If other departments were given an opportunity to do that, knowing Kenya, that hospital would have cost over Kshs100 billion. We must congratulate the University management for doing a good job. As Kenyans, we have got value for money. After touring the hospital, we found a hospital which is complete. It is about a year or two years since it was completed. It is lying idle. It is a well-built and fully-equipped hospital with the latest technology. What is the problem? The problem is the issue of funding. The university told us that they require approximately Kshs600 million to start operations. If they get Kshs600 million, they will be able to unlock a Kshs1.3 billion loan to initiate their operations. Those operations will include hiring of staff and capacity building. The university itself was ready to inject in Kshs200 million in terms of the staff such as the lecturers within the university who are doctors and their auxiliaries. In conclusion, I urge this House to adopt this Report and appropriate the funding of Kshs600 million for the dry run of the hospital and also the Kshs1.3 billion for the soft run. Let us not forget something which I feel very deeply. What model will we use in this hospital? This hospital should be run purely as a university hospital. Let us not go the Semi-Autonomous Government Agencies (SAGAs) way. Let us not go the KNH or the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) way. We know the challenges and the problems they are undergoing. Therefore, we have to use this worldwide model of a university hospital. Worldwide universities have their hospitals. They are doing very well. I will stop there. I second the Motion."
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