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    "content": "As I will move the amendments, I will give special consideration to spinal cord injury patients whose only referral hospital in Kenya has a bed capacity of 32 beds. We have a facility in Korogocho that is 80 per cent complete and needs about Kshs500 million to be completed to which we can move the spinal cord injury ward to. It is a 300-bed facility which can accommodate spinal cord injury patients. So, I will beg the House especially the Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee and its Members to re-consider the advice that we have to wait for reports from 43 counties in December. Why should we plan for the unknown when we already have gaps in UHC? Why should we wait until December for the pilot programme of four counties to be done then the Ministry writes reports which we may get in February after the long recess then implementation will follow and we, of course, shall have reached the next financial year? So, I plead with the Chair of Budget and Appropriations Committee to support the Committee so that we reallocate the money that was meant for upscaling in the 43 counties because the report is not ready. We should address the grave gaps that we have like in the spinal cord injury units in Kenyatta National Hospital and Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital. Let me go on record that the treatment of tuberculosis is not funded by donors any more. We have a shortfall of Kshs1 billion. The donors have withdrawn from Kenya because we are now a lower middle-income country."
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