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    "id": 90160,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Musila",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Defence",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Musila",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to utilize these two minutes by saying that I fully support the Vote of the Ministry of Medical Services. This is one Ministry which is facing many challenges. My heart goes to the staff who work out there under very difficult conditions. Any hospital must have some basic things. It must have an X-ray unit, a doctor, a technologist and an ambulance. However, our hospitals lack all those things. I want to urge that, that be considered because some of those hospitals exist only by name. The Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (KEMSA) is one institution whose performance must be critically looked at. I have talked to the Minister and told him that the capitalization of KEMSA is necessary, if we have to improve the institution. I support that. I want to go further and say that the Treasury should allocate money to KEMSA directly, so that, that important institution can deliver drugs to hospitals. We should not wait until hospitals have exhausted their drugs and then embark on the rigorous process of procuring drugs which takes a very long time. Finally, we want to see KMTC taking people from all over the Republic. Recently, we commended the Ministry for recruiting nurses. However, many of those nurses are being recruited from some areas and taken to other areas. It is not that those areas do not have qualified people to join the KMTC and become nurses, but it is because certain Ministers have over-trained people in their own areas and, therefore, they have to export nurses. I want to appeal to the Minister to, in the exercise that is going on now, take stock of the requirements of districts and allocate training vacancies at KMTC depending on need. If a district has more nurses, it should be allocated zero. If it is like Mwingi, it should be allocated more."
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