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    "id": 958544,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kibiru",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Charles Reubenson Kibiru",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I will use the three minutes. We, as a country, we are becoming jokers. We spend a lot of money on the Medical Equipment Services (MES), which was a bone of contention in the mediation of the Division of Revenue Bill. Yesterday we discussed about a Level 4 Hospital that has stopped operations in Kitui County. Today, we are talking about a hospital in Kiambu County that has stalled. At the same time, the policy makers and the top leadership of the country are talking about universal healthcare. Are we talking without walking the talk? Whichever Committee that will take up this issue should take health matters seriously. They need to come up with a matrix that can be discussed by this House, so that we know which hospitals have stalled and which ones do not operate optimally or do not offer services as required. We should address this issue as protectors of the counties and devolution. It is unfortunate that every other day, we hear about doctors and nurses going on strike. Provision of healthcare is one of the Big Four agenda. The Committee that will take up this issue should give us statistics, so that we come up with a way forward on how to deal with the issue of hospitals. I thank you."
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