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    "id": 915836,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/915836/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Wilberforce Oundo",
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        "legal_name": "Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "If you have had a chance to go to various hospitals, you will find that they are congested. Indeed, a statement has been made in reference to Kenyatta National Hospital and Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital that they are congested simply because cases that are not truly referral end up in these hospitals. It is, therefore, my presentation that as a nation we need to invest heavily in lower cadre medical facilities to ensure that these issues are dealt with at the initial stage. Early detection, or proper and correct diagnosis and management should be done so that a typical medical case does not escalate to a level that is life-threatening. Indeed, it would be better to deal with such cases at an appropriate moment or at the primary level. Of course, preventable healthcare becomes critical and that is why the link between healthcare, water, food, means of transport, pollution and environmental degradation become central to the overall medical healthcare management in this country. I come from Busia County and since the devolution of the health function almost eight years ago; our health situation has not changed at all. For example, in my constituency, through the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF), they had built nine primary healthcare facilities: Busembe, Buduta, Rumbiye, Nambuku, Wakhungu, Kabuodo, Nangina, Agengá and Namuduru. Earlier, we had built a sub-district hospital that is now a Level 3 hospital, but I assure the nation and the people of Busia that many of those facilities are merely structures consisting of four walls with nothing inside. They are an eyesore because they provide nothing. Many of them have cracked walls, for example, Nambuku that have been condemned by personnel from the public health. I believe that with proper investment, proper funding and proper capital resources, these facilities will offer relief from high end referral hospitals."
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