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    "id": 96491,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/96491/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang’-Nyong’o",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Medical Services",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 193,
        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
        "slug": "peter-nyongo"
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital on average attends to 18,000 outpatients and 20,000 inpatients every month. (b) The World Health Organization (WHO) standard for surgical theatres in large teaching hospitals is one theatre for every 50 inpatients. The Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital has ten theatres, which for a bed capacity of 710, gives a shortfall of 4 theatres. In spite of this shortfall, the hospital optimizes utilisation of these theatres to ensure that no surgical patient is delayed for surgery or turned away. (c) The strategic direction of the health sector is to invest in primary and preventive health programmes to minimize the incidence of diseases and, therefore, the need for people to visit hospitals. Patients are then supposed to access specialized services in big hospitals like the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital through an effective referral system, linking various levels of care and specialization. To enhance the capacity of the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital to offer tertiary, namely, specialised services, the following improvements are planned to take place in the medium-term. (i) Construction of a cancer treatment centre at a cost of Kshs945,815,000. (ii) Establishment of the Moi Medical Research Centre in partnership with Moi University at a cost of Kshs170 million. (iii) Construction of a 200-bed children’s hospital at a cost of Kshs710 million."
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