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    "id": 916401,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/916401/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Masinga, WDM – K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joshua Mwalyo",
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        "id": 13423,
        "legal_name": "Joshua Mbithi Mwalyo",
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    "content": "This being one of the Big Four Agenda of the President, we should put a lot of effort and interest in hospitals, especially referral hospitals. The Level 3, 4 and 5 hospitals should also be equipped and personnel like doctors and nurses employed to decongest a referral hospital like KNH. For example, in my constituency, people are referred to Machakos Level 5 Hospital. When they reach there, they are referred to KNH. If all the constituencies refer people to KNH, then there will be no space and doctors to treat them. Levels 3 and 4 hospitals in the constituencies should be equipped and staffed, so that we can decongest referral hospitals. This can go a long way in taking care of the people we represent because we are their voice. The money that has already been set aside, as stated by the Departmental Committee on Health, should be used to renovate all the facilities. The roofs are leaking. The cold rooms have broken down and the mortuaries are congested. Renovations should be done to make our facilities healthy for the sick people. You can go to some hospitals with a headache and get out with a worse situation because they are in pathetic state. We need to emphasise on the need to renovate our hospitals so that people can be treated well. Drugs should also be available."
}