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    "id": 873985,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/873985/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Owen Yaa Baya",
        "slug": "owen-yaa-baya"
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    "content": "I want to point out a few things that have been highlighted today in the Daily Nation . This country has around 142 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds against a population of 50 million. If you look at the statistics, 50 per cent of the people who go into ICU die. The cost of ICU in this country is overboard. When these people die, they pay the cost of staying in the ICU. We know that an ICU bed costs over Kshs30,000 for an hour today. You realise that people who go into ICU do not survive. They are the poor people. Therefore, we are looking at a desperate situation where somebody has paid all the cost, sold everything to ensure his loved one gets well but he dies and then he is told he has a bill of Kshs5million. I have three families in my constituency whose property was sold because they deposited their title deeds at the hospital, so that the body would be released. They wrote an agreement that in the next two or three years, they shall pay and collect the title deed. However, they were unable to raise the funds. The families lost their property because somebody died. This is very sad for this country."
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