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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Cecily Mbarire",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Maina Kamanda",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Motion. Let me start by first thanking the Committee for stepping in just in time to save this situation where we were able to get a loan from Exim Bank of China of up to Kshs8.7 billion to build a state-of-the-art hospital, namely, the Kenyatta University Teaching and Referral Hospital. The hospital has not been operationalised and not because work was not done. Design, infrastructure development and equipping of this hospital is already done. The biggest challenge is the recruitment of staff and ensuring that their salaries are available. Let me add my voice to that of Hon. Millie Odhiambo who said that it is unfortunate that we can invest so much money which is a loan and then we are unable to do very simple things like recruiting personnel so that the hospital is fully operationalised. Since one of the Big Four Agenda is the universal healthcare (UHC), this hospital will play a critical role in ensuring that Kenyans have access to quality health services. As you know, UHC aims at ensuring that we provide quality health services to all Kenyans. It is an ambitious agenda that must be achieved. This hospital will provide that platform to achieve UHC. This same hospital provides training of health personnel. There is a challenge of training all our health personnel and it is important that we create more institutions to do so. Being a referral hospital, it will ease the pressure that we experience in Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) and hospitals around Nairobi, especially public hospitals. This is an issue which is long overdue. I am happy because the Committee stepped in and worked expeditiously to make sure that they bring the Report before us, so that we can approve it."
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