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    "id": 96497,
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    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang’-Nyong’o",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have a tremendous problem in this nation in that the doctor/patient ratio is, perhaps, one of the highest in the developing countries. Many patients go to hospitals and find that there are no doctors to attend to them within the requisite time. This is because either the specialists are not available or the specialists who are there are over-stretched. The City of Nairobi is very badly hit, first, because the architecture of medical facilities is all wrong. The City Council is supposed to own and operate clinics in the City, yet it is not capable of doing so. Most of these facilities, as the Member has stated, do not have enough specialists and equipment to function as such. Our proposal to the City Council of Nairobi and the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Local Government is for these facilities to be handed over to the Ministry of Medical Services, because it is that Ministry which has the qualification and, indeed, the infrastructure to do so. Regarding specialists in the medical sector, we know what the shortage is. We are in discussions with universities, both public and private, about this shortage. However, this is something that we will have to live with for some time. I believe that if, indeed, we want to meet the goals of Vision 2030, our Government must invest enough in the medical sector, one, for us to have the specialists and, two, for us to have the equipment and infrastructure to deliver effective medical services to our people."
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