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    "id": 915879,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bomet Central, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ronald Tonui",
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        "legal_name": "Ronald Kiprotich Tonui",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for this opportunity to support the Report by the Departmental Committee on Health. It is timely and we need to support this Committee. The Chair stated that they requested for financial support towards the health sector and it was not considered by the Budget and Appropriations Committee. It is unfortunate when we do not fund this sector to ensure that the medical facilities which are currently available out there are also available in this country. We currently have medical tourism where many of our people go to India and spend lots of money especially in treating cancer. We need to bring those machines to this country so that people from the rest of this region can come to Kenya to be treated as part of medical tourism. Even though we are talking about lack of adequate funding of the health sector, we are allocating around Kshs80 billion to the Ministry of Health yet health is a devolved function. We are spending less than Kshs15 billion on the four national hospitals. That means that the balance of over Kshs60 billion is used in managing other issues such as administration. We need to guide the Departmental Committee on Health to ensure that the money which is left with the national Government is not misused. This is so that we do not have containers rusting in Mombasa when we have spent billions of shillings to purchase them, and we keep complaining that there is shortage of funds. We need to use that money efficiently so that we serve our people. Let me stop there because I want to allow more Members to also comment. There are those who are joining us halfway and wish to rush the programme while many of us have sat here from 2.30 p.m. waiting to contribute. There are others who were watching the debate from their offices and they come and try to force us to conclude. That is quite unfair. Let us give everyone a chance to contribute."
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