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    "id": 962532,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/962532/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Likuyani, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Wamalwa Kibunguchy",
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        "id": 294,
        "legal_name": "Enoch Wamalwa Kibunguchy",
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    "content": "I agree and support this Motion. For us to implement this Motion properly, we must re- think strongly whether what we are having now in the country in terms of medical care or healthcare is adequate for our people or not. I am of the view that it was premature and we did not think through it very well. If we will have a referendum in this country, we need to seriously think about reverting the health function back to the national Government. Massive screening is only possible when it is being coordinated from one centre - that is the national Government. If we fragment it into so many different counties which have priorities which are sometimes upside down, we will not succeed very well. For us to put this Motion into perspective that will help our people, we have to be courageous and proactive enough to say that time has now come. This experiment of the health function being handled by the counties has gone on for too long. It has shown us that it cannot work. We cannot flog a dead horse that is already down on the ground. We need to start thinking seriously about it. I urge my colleagues that this is the time for us to seriously think about reverting the health function back to the national Government for us to implement this Motion. We have seen an upsurge of deaths in the country. We are burying our people more frequently than we used to sometime back. I attribute that to the fact that we devolved the health function to the counties. Counties need to come up and say that they do not have the capacity to handle health. It will be okay if we go that way."
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