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"content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I apologize to my friend, Mr. Ethuro, because I only have three or four minutes remaining. I want to take this opportunity to thank all the hon. Members for their kind words to my Ministry, officers and I. We will continue to try and serve you even better. We have taken note of all your comments. So, because of time I will only go to a few. I noted, especially the cry from North Eastern Province about their figures and we will pay special attention to the province. I want to make it clear right now that the Kshs21 billion excluded the Stimulus Package. So, unfortunately, we cannot put it to maternal reproductive or anywhere, because it is part of the stimulus package. It is not additional money. You will also note that we are now paying more staff in our Ministry and, therefore, some of the money was for emoluments. On the model health centres, it is definitely in the budget. I would urge MPs to continue sending us their records so that we can dispatch the second lot. We will be asking for more money because what we have will not be quite enough. On stock-out, we are adopting a new strategy; we are working with KEMSA. We believe that it will be a thing of the past. We are putting up a new strategy in place. I want to assure Mr. Shakeel that we need the two Ministries right now. That is why you can see so much work is being done in public health which was neglected in the past. On CDF, we have opened several dispensaries now. The slow pace will be because of not enough drugs. We will be asking for more money from the Treasury because we need to be able to open more health facilities; we will need more drugs, even if we are now getting extra nurses. Our hope and strategy is to open all of them because we do not want to waste money. I would urge the hon. Members to halt building new facilities until we can take stock and see how many of them we can open. We will work together on this. On the issue of ambulances, I completely agree. I have been discussing this issue with my officers. We are consulting with the Treasury and we will pass your feelings very strongly that we should purchase ambulances and not lease them. It is not practical; we are still consulting. We will try to rush the consultations. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I agree very much with Dr. Eseli on HIV management. We need to up our treatment management, because that will prevent new cases or rapid infections. I also want to agree very much with Mr. Shakeel that it would be much more practical if HIV is addressed by the Ministry of Public Health because it is a preventive measure. The social side is not as urgent as preventive. So, I hope those feelings will be carried forth and maybe, we will try and address it at the right forum. We note the equity issue and we will look into the issues you mentioned. We have taken note of them. Thank you and I beg to move."
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