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    "id": 944468,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Malalah",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cleophas Wakhungu Malalah",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as we try to achieve the UHC, primary healthcare is inevitable. In the healthcare system, Level 1 hospital is the community healthcare. Therefore, the players at that level are very important in achieving the dream of the UHC. The role of a community health worker has been described vividly by Sen. Nyamunga. Just to mention, they help in preventing the child mortality and also equip families with knowledge and skills to prevent diseases. They promote good nutrition sensitization and hygiene and generally link families to essential health services. This Motion seeks to come up with a policy that will help county governments to operationalise health systems which take care of the basics. There are primary health centres such as dispensaries which are not equipped. As we come up with a policy that will help us entrench the community health workers into a binding legislation, it is important to look at ways in which we shall equip the same health workers. We have situations where a health worker walks from one house to another yet he or she does not have the requisite equipment to perform the duties. It is, therefore, important for the county governments to equip these very important people in our society. We allocate county governments a lot of money. For example, Kakamega County got Kshs12 billion. Out of that money, Kshs2.4billion went to health. It is, therefore, important for us to also prioritise the spending of county government funds to ensure that we give priority to essential services such as healthcare. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I do not intend to discredit the efforts of my good Governor, Gov. Oparanya. He employed almost 4,000 youth whose work is basically to open trenches and collect dirt in the environment and they are paid approximatelyKshs10,000. When you compare that to the services of a health worker, I think it should be the other way round. Let us have health workers who are paid and not volunteers. We should have the youth who volunteer to go and collect dirt in the streets. 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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