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    "id": 915814,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Gladys Wanga",
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        "legal_name": "Gladys Atieno Nyasuna",
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    "content": "Let me come back to our health facilities. The national referral facilities or the Level 6 facilities that we currently have are Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, KNH, Mathari National Teaching and Referral Hospital and National Spinal Injury Referral Hospital. Since we passed the Constitution 2010, we have not passed legislation on national referral facilities that give guidelines on what constitutes them. We only assume that these are the referral facilities. Many Members have said that we should add Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Hospital or the Coast Provincial General Hospital as national referral facilities. We need legislation which covers the standards for graduation of hospitals. I can give an example of the Homa Bay Level 4 Hospital. When the First Lady visited Homa Bay County in 2014, we requested her to talk to the Cabinet Secretary to make our hospital a Level 5 hospital. She told CS Macharia to make it a Level 5 hospital. We have been speaking since that day, but it has not turned into a Level 5 hospital. As a House, we have a responsibility to have legislation that sets standards as well as a board that deals with the graduation of hospitals. Just like ISO certification of institutions, we should know that for a hospital to become a Level 4 hospital from Level 3, it needs certain standards. When I attain that level as a facility, I do not need to go to anybody. I go to the board, they come and inspect and the hospital is immediately graduated to the next level. This should be the same thing for Level 4 hospitals graduating to Level 5 hospitals and Level 5 hospitals graduating to a national referral hospital. We should not seek favours in the graduation of our hospitals. We need to have standards and that is a responsibility that lies squarely with this House. It is something we need to do so that we move away from that problem."
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