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    "id": 915822,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/915822/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Saku, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ali Rasso",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13473,
        "legal_name": "Dido Ali Raso",
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    "content": "This Report talks about referral hospitals which are the hospitals of the last resort. When you go to our referral hospitals which the Committee visited and reported on, they do not appear to be referral hospitals. If you go to KNH where many of us visit our patients, it does not appear to be a referral hospital, but just one of the hospitals around. Sometimes we ask ourselves how a patient was moved all the way from Moyale which is 800 kilometres to end up in KNH, and yet something could have been done in Marsabit or Moyale where we have a Level 3 hospital and Level 4 hospital. Our Committee needs to re-think about this issue of healthcare. They have given us this Report. If we must invest in these referral hospitals as opposed to building our health system top down, we must begin to address it bottom up. Why am I saying this? When our health centres or the smallest health units in locations or sub-counties are well equipped and well manned by the right personnel, the burden that we are experiencing at the referral hospitals will be reduced."
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