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    "id": 879303,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Standing Order No.225(2)(b) requires that the Speaker reports to the House any Petition other than those presented through a Member. I, therefore, wish to convey to the House that my office is in receipt of a petition from members of the Kenya Medical Practitioners’, Pharmacists and Dentists Union and Boresha Maisha. The petitioners request the National Assembly to enact legislation to provide for operation and regulation of national health referral and training hospitals and the establishment of the Health Service Commission whose mandate shall be to address recruitment, deployment, remuneration amongst other human resource aspects. The petitioners aver that the Constitution confers upon the national Government the functions relating to the national referral health facilities and health policy respectively. Further, Article 43(1) of the Constitution guarantees the right of every person to the highest attainable standard of health. Notwithstanding this, the petitioners contend that the state of healthcare of many Kenyans remains deplorable and that the health system is facing numerous challenges including inadequate medical personnel, poor remuneration, impoverished hospital infrastructure, inadequate medical equipment and funding. The petitioners, therefore, pray that the National Assembly enacts legislation: (i) to provide for a framework for transfer and reversal of the health function back to the National Government in terms of Article 187 of the Constitution; (ii) to provide for a legal framework for operations and regulation of national health referral hospitals, in addition to elevation and designation of the existing 11 Level 5 hospitals into national referral and training hospitals; (iii) to ring-fence health funds at the county level; and (iv) to amend other relevant laws as contemplated in Article 252 of the Constitution, so as to assign functions and powers to the proposed Health Service Commission. Pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order No.227, the Petition stands committed to the Departmental Committee on Health for consideration. The Committee is requested to consider the Petition and report its findings to the House and Petitioners in accordance with Standing Order No.227(2). Let us have the Member for Embakasi West."
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