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    "id": 915736,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/915736/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Molo, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13435,
        "legal_name": "Francis Kuria Kimani",
        "slug": "francis-kuria-kimani"
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    "content": "We have many patients who despite being admitted to hospitals are not able to clear their bills. I have mediated on several cases where my constituents came to KNH, incurred huge medical bills and tried to get a waiver, but were not able. I am surprised why that is not possible. The Report shows that referral hospitals do not have enough social workers. The responsibility of social workers in hospitals should be to ascertain the social economic welfare of patients so that in the event that some patients are not able to pay their bills, the social workers can recommend whose bills should be waived and whose should not. Otherwise, we have people who get sick and recover, but end up spending months in hospital for non-payment of bills. Consequently, their bills accumulate and sometimes they even get re-infected with diseases. This needs to be looked into."
}