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    "id": 92918,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Njuguna",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 20,
        "legal_name": "Peter Njuguna Gitau",
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    "content": "Concerning the Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP), I wish to register my appreciation for the quick intervention that the Minister gave to the bureaucratic interference that was noted, regarding the implementation of this programme in my constituency. Some staff would not be comfortable with certain developments in certain constituencies and, therefore, the Minister qualifies to be congratulated for coming in rightly. I wish to assure her that this project in my constituency is almost starting. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, concerning the recruitment of the 20 nurses, this was done well in my constituency and it is going to translate in better performance and better services in our constituencies. Old mothers will now not necessarily walk long distances to look for services. Employment has also been guaranteed for those youths who have been out for longer periods. We also need ambulances in our health centres, particularly for mothers who are ready to bring young ones on this earth and yet the required services are not available. For these emergencies therefore, I would recommend very strongly that we have ambulances in our health centres. I note with appreciation the commitment by the Minister to gallantly fight the jigger menace in our society. By extension, the Minister has given that commitment that healthcare would be improved in primary and secondary schools. By doing so, academic performance and quality of learning in our schools would definitely improve. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also wish to register my appreciation to the Minister for Public Health and Sanitation who came out to assure Kenyans, particularly when we had the flood threat, that there were adequate drugs to fight cholera threat. It is also important that the issue of delivery beds in our health centres be addressed critically because some of them were supplied in the 1970s and 1980s; so, they are old and shaky. We need babies to come to this earth on very decent delivery beds. Therefore, new beds must be supplied so that the health of our mothers and young babies is not interfered with. This Ministry is very unique. With those few remarks, I support."
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