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    "id": 915790,
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    "speaker_name": "Rangwe, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Lilian Gogo",
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        "legal_name": "Lilian Achieng Gogo",
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    "content": "Allow me to also thank the medical practitioners and paramedics for the effort they are putting in the wellness of the people of Kenya. They have gone out of their way to use the limited resources they have. It is out of this that a Report has been made by the Committee on the need to improve our referral systems. So, I thank them for doing a good job. Also, I want to thank the Committee for the good Report they have written which is giving a good highlight on the state of our referral systems. Apart from this, we need to rethink and relook at our social systems essentially when it comes to good health and wellness. In as much as doctors make referrals, there are Kenyans who are unable to go to the referral systems. In Rangwe Constituency, I have systems where my constituents approach me after being referred to a health unit probably KNH, MTRH or Mathari and we hold a Harambee to raise money. We need to rethink and relook into our social systems because we may have referral units, but Kenyans cannot access them. Having said that, I want to put more emphasis on what has been said earlier that we need strong support systems. Other than the referral units, it is important that our regional and county health units work before people are referred to other health facilities. Allow me to invoke an element for the need to have our highly skilled and trained doctors working in referral units, getting an opportunity to train our young people who are languishing out there. They are trained as doctors, but they will miss the necessary transfer of knowledge from our highly skilled medical practitioners who are about to leave. Our healthcare system is leaving many of our young people out there who can learn, be absorbed or employed in our referral systems to help together with the already existing staff. Referral units use highly specialised equipment. We have our young people out there who are trained; doctors are being training in their numbers in this country. It is important for us to have more doctors and at its worst we should allow them to offer their services for free. So, as we support the recommendations of the Departmental Committee of Health, we should rethink seriously about our social systems. Allow me to put more emphasis on the need to put more money to our referral units. We need to have our system of grading our hospitals being automated so that we literally do not have to beg for a given hospital or health facility to reach a certain level. If we want to talk about Level 5 hospitals or Level 6 hospitals, we should have a system that would automatically have quality standards that can be used generally by the country to get balance, upgrade regional systems and regional hospitals. Somebody has just talked about Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Hospital. There is also the Coast General Hospital. We also have other hospitals spread across this country. We need to rethink and relook the level of these hospitals so that we have very strong support systems. At given levels, there is money that goes directly to these systems. So, we need to look at that. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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