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    "id": 937484,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I also support this Petition. Apart from health being 95 per cent devolved, it is a very critical component of human life. Under the Geneva Convention, health workers are protected even in war zones in terms of physical protection, nutrition supply and remuneration. It is disheartening to note that here in our country, a function that is devolved to the extent of 95 per cent still has over 90 per cent of health resources controlled at the center. That is why we have scandalous activities such as MES and others. It is incumbent upon county governments, having taken up health as a devolved function, to ensure that health workers are properly remunerated, motivated and are enabled to work to save lives. These health workers carry out probably 80 per cent of the treatment of our citizens. If you go to health centers, dispensaries and many of the health facilities in the countryside, you will hardly find doctors. Doctors are found in Level Four and Level Five hospitals. In the other facilities, it is the nurses and other health technicians who do the work, and they heal people. Today, if you go to the villages, there are too many inexplicable deaths of people. The people are dying from very preventable diseases because of the de-motivated workers in the health sector. Therefore, the Committee on Labour and Social welfare that is likely to be looking at this matter – or whichever committee you refer it to – should make sure that this stand-off between the health workers and the county management system is brought to an end, so that people do not suffer unnecessarily."
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