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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, let me turn on to the health sector and thank the Ministry for the support, especially the Economic Stimulus Package awarded to the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation. Specifically, I want to thank the Ministry following last year’s stimulus of creating maternity and pediatric wards to ensure safe motherhood and providing ambulances this year for referral purposes. Starting with the model health clinics, I would like to inform the Minister that we appreciate the Kshs1 billion that has been allocated to complete the health centres but, unfortunately, that money will not be enough. We will be calling on the Ministry for more funds. We will also request the Minister to ensure that the money which is returned to the Treasury should be revoted back to the Ministry so that we can finish these very noble projects. We know of the high maternal deaths which stand at 488 per 100,000 and the child mortality rate which stands at 72 per 1,000 live births. To reduce this, we need our maternity facilities up and running. We also appreciate the nurses and the technical staff who were included in the Stimulus Package this year. We hope that this will be repeated so that we can keep it at that level. One thing that was missing is our promise of taking over the health staff who had been employed by our development partners. Again, we will be visiting the Ministry to make sure that it is well catered for."
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