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    "id": 865375,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/865375/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kinangop, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Zachary Thuku",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13380,
        "legal_name": "Zachary Kwenya Thuku",
        "slug": "zachary-kwenya-thuku"
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    "content": "As much as it is the state-of-the art hospital, it has been lying there for the last two years. It is complete and waiting for some budgetary allocation of Kshs600million which it has not been given. The equipment in that hospital has a warranty. We are getting to the expiry of the warranty before the equipment has been put into use. It is a shame. We are talking of a hospital that cost an equivalent of the same money that we allocated to procure scanners that have turned out to be a scandal. We allocated Kshs8 billion for 37 scanners. We have constructed a fully- fledged hospital at a cost of Kshs8.7 billion. This is paradoxical in terms of how much money is lying there, how much money goes to waste and the balance of the money that we need to put into this Hospital, so that it can be operationalised. I, therefore, wish to urge this House, as a matter of urgency, that if there is any budgetary allocation that we will do or any request that is going to come forth from Kenyatta University Teaching and Referral Hospital, then we should make sure that we make it as a priority, so that then we can stop medical tourism to India. If this hospital is operationalised, then we will deal with such cases."
}