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    "id": 908790,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/908790/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Samburu North, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Alois Lentoimaga",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Alois Musa Lentoimaga",
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    "content": " Thank you very much Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I join my colleagues in congratulating BAC for the good work it has done, even though we normally complain yearly about the budget implementation. At the outset, I express my displeasure on the issue of allocation of money to the health sector. This is because from where I come from in Samburu North and Samburu County in general, we face a very serious crisis when it comes to sicknesses. Hospitals are as far as Nairobi and Nakuru. We do not have good health facilities in Samburu that can assist the sick. We would expect this particular budget to address issues concerning Level 5 hospitals because that is the nearest health facility that can assist people in northern Kenya. The ones in the county and sub- counties like Baragoi Sub-county Hospital need to be improved. There is equipment in those hospitals that can assist, but if only they are made to work. The problem is that they are just dumped there. There are no resources that can make those facilities to be utilised fully and address the issue of healthcare in those areas. We use a lot of money every single time to transport sick people 450 kilometres from Maralal to this place, or to Nakuru. Leave alone that, most of our people are poor and unable to pay bills or even fare. They are unable to take care of the sick. So, if that equipment can be improved, they will be utilised. Theatres will be operational and that will go a long way in improving healthcare."
}