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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Nyamunga",
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        "legal_name": "Rose Nyamunga Ogendo",
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    "content": "COGNIZANT THAT, the provision of healthcare services is continuously riddled with numerous challenges ranging from understaffing of personnel to inadequate facilities and equipment resulting in congestion in hospitals further restricting effective service delivery; NOTING THAT every Kenyan has a right to affordable and accessible healthcare, and the President has launched a pilot universal health care program called “Afya Care” that will see many Kenyans access improved healthcare; CONCERNED THAT, the diverse nature of counties and wanting infrastructural development is compromising the quality and accessibility of health centres especially during emergency situations, resulting in the loss of many lives occasioned by the failure by patients to reach health facilities in time; FURTHER CONCERNED THAT, in each county there are numerous unemployed community health workers who are adept at working with communities in emergency situations, and have the requisite experience to support the medical practitioners in our country where, according to the World Health Organization 2014 report, there are two (2) doctors for every ten thousand (10,000) people; NOW THEREFORE, the Senate resolves that the Council of Governors in partnership with the Ministry of Health – 1. Develop a policy for the training, certification and employment of community health workers to enhance the emergency health service delivery in the Counties, and 2. Facilitate the said community health workers with the necessary basic equipment for use during emergency cases. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, just before we start the debate on this Motion allow me to give statistics that will enable this House to see the need for supporting community health workers by the county governments so as to improve health care in our counties. Allow me also to read some statistics according to my findings because I may not have them off the cuff. With the total population of Kenya recently standing at over 50 million, there is proof that if you take those statistics and the number of doctors we have in Kenya, the ratio is not 1:10,000, but 1:17,000 people. This means that for every one doctor they must attend to 17,000 patients in the republic of Kenya, if you take the population versus the number of doctors we have. As at the year 2017, Kenya had only 2,089 specialist doctors. The national survey of the country’s hospital staff has revealed that in 2015 there were 5,660 medical doctors with 387 of them specialising in gynaecology. Experts in general surgery stood at 330 while internal medicine experts were at 296. According to the 2015 Kenya Health Workforce Report on the Status of Healthcare Professionals, Kenya was a distant 13.8 per cent to 10,000. The report calculated that the total population was at 47,000,600 people as at January 2018, given that there were only 4,373 live births and 1,164 deaths. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is therefore, very important to know that as long as the population continues to grow, there is a lot of need for healthcare. Therefore, the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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