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    "id": 915799,
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    "speaker_name": "Ndhiwa, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Martin Owino",
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        "legal_name": "Martin Peters Owino",
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    "content": "and drug abuse and the toxic beverages that they sell in shops. Prevention, hard rules and decentralising these services will help us more than putting them together. My view about the Report, so that I can give other people a chance to contribute, is that the social structure is missing in our healthcare system. For example, if you discharge a patient from KNH, do you know how the patient is fairing on? That linkage between the hospital and facilities of care and the households is missing. That also refers to the treatment management. Did you take your medication on time? Is it working for you? Those linkages are missing. People tend to come back to the same medical facilities where they were. We have to develop those departments. It will help those who cannot afford to get waivers. Those workers should also visit patients. They should supplement the community health workers. Lastly, there is the human resource for health. In the hospitals where we were, one doctor and one nurse had to attend to too many patients. We are doing very poorly when it comes to standards for care. Currently in our country, the average of two doctors for 10,000 people and eight nurses for 10,000 people is unmanageable. In other areas, there are too many people per doctor. In my constituency, there are two doctors for 300,000 people. It is unmanageable. We have to allocate more money for human resource. We talk about universal healthcare which refers to healthcare access. You cannot access quality medical care if one doctor is treating very many people. It does not work. It is impossible. We saw the budget for the Ministry of Health. In fact, we are still around 8 per cent which is below the 15 per cent recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO). This House has to put more money into the Ministry of Health. You cannot grow an economy with sick people. It does not work. As long as we stay stingy with our money, we will still get it wrong. We have to fund this Ministry and hire many people. We have many qualified doctors who are not employed. We also need to hire nurses, clinical officers as well as radiographers. We have to put more money in health in order to get healthcare in this country right. We are moving away from talking too much about medical care. We want to talk about healthcare. That means you preserve those who are healthy so that they do not get sick. If they happen to get sick, there should be early disease detection so that they can get care. They should then get quality care from motivated personnel. All that needs funding. With those remarks, I support the Report. Many reports are adopted, but they are not implemented. The Committee on Implementation should ensure that what we present in this House is implemented."
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