{"id":865749,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/865749/?format=json","text_counter":329,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. (Dr.) Mbito","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":13225,"legal_name":"Michael Maling'a Mbito","slug":"michael-malinga-mbito"},"content":"Allow me to make a quick summary of this report. The tender sum of the MES was US$432 million. To date, over US$200 million has already been paid and the contract balance is over US$230 million. Five contracts were awarded in this Programme; one went to Shenzhen Mindray Biomedical Electronics Company Limited of China, which provided theatre equipment at a total cost of almost US$46 million. They have so far been paid over US$22 million and are owed over US$23 million. The second contract went to Esteem Industries India to provide SSD equipment. This is actually sterilisation equipment and it refers to auto claves. This was done at a cost of US$88 million. A total of US$42million has already been paid, and they are owed US$45million."}