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    "id": 915772,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/915772/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugenya, MDG",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Ochieng",
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        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
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    "content": "The MTRH has done a good job. People come all the way from Rusinga and North Eastern to the hospital. It was built recently, but it has shown how best we can run our hospitals. If you go there, as a Member of Parliament, they will give you a waiver if you have a patient or a dead person there because they respect the leadership of the country. So, if we want to help our health system to grow, we must build the capacity of these institutions not just by word of mouth, but by the way we appoint their boards, their CEOs and the way we set up their systems. The cost of medicine is an important issue in the provision of health services. Sometimes I wonder. The drugs we buy in this country for Kshs100 if you cross the border to Uganda or Tanzania, you will buy them at a lower price. The Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA) and other institutions must have reforms to ensure that we do not overstretch referral hospitals. They should handle illnesses that are very serious so that we are able to build the capacity of small health centres to deal with these kinds of issues. I want to agree with those who have proposed that we bring a Bill to this House and ensure that Mathari National Teaching and Referral Hospital, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Hospital and the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital be set up as independent institutions. I hope in the Committee where I sit, we will agree on far-reaching reforms on the issue of our referral hospitals so that we can stop going to India, Egypt, United Kingdom and other countries to be treated for illnesses that we can treat here at home. I support and thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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