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    "id": 915744,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/915744/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Makueni, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Daniel Maanzo",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2197,
        "legal_name": "Daniel Kitonga Maanzo",
        "slug": "daniel-kitonga-maanzo"
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    "content": "The five hospitals that have been identified namely, KNH, MTRH, Nairobi Spinal Injury Hospital, Mathari National Teaching and Referral Hospital and Kenyatta University Teaching and Referral Hospital geographically, other than MTRH are within Nairobi. Kenya has a devolved system of governance. We know the good work that has been done by Governor Oparanya in Kakamega County. He has constructed a good hospital. Therefore, we should be thinking of what to do other than what has been recommended here in terms of increasing the allocation to take medical care closer to the people because health is devolved. This is the time we should be thinking about making Wote District Hospital in Makueni Constituency a referral hospital. During my first parliamentary term, before we transited to devolution, I made sure that the national Government refurbished that facility, and it was in a very good state. Recently, the Makueni Governor had a mother and baby hospital wing coming up next to it. There are sufficient facilities in Makueni County to convert the hospital into a referral facility. Although health is a devolved function, the big hospitals in every county, starting from Garissa to Mombasa and Kwale, should be upgraded to referral facility status while they still offer services to local communities. We should make sure that they are funded by the national Government because we gave sufficient funds to the Ministry of Health as was requested by the Ministry. I am very happy to say that the Cabinet Secretary, Ms. Kariuki, is doing a very good job. When I was in the Government, I had opportunity to work with her in one sector, where she was doing the big job of marketing all the tea in the country abroad. Later on, she became a Principal Secretary and now she is a Cabinet Secretary. Therefore, she knows her job very well. She has a very good Principal Secretary who has performed very well."
}