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    "id": 981648,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mugo",
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        "legal_name": "Beth Wambui Mugo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to support this important Petition. I add my voice in congratulating the Senator for Lamu County. I watched him last night and I almost cried. I could see the pain in his eyes. Those of us who really saw this segment, which the Senator very proudly presented, lack words to express what we saw. There is no hospital there. It is very unfortunate that we saw patients there since there is nothing that looks like a hospital. It was terribly dirty; the bathrooms, toilets, beddings, and every other thing. I felt very sorry for these patients. I want to echo my other colleagues who said that if health is too much for devolution, then we should not devolve the function. It would make our people die of problems that can be treated. Even if we are supposed to protect devolution as a Senate, and I have said this before, it should be protection that makes our people really well and not sick. I would also like to add here that malaria is completely preventable. We saw it, we had been able to prevent malaria for years and hospital beds were empty of malaria patients. Just supply nets to all the homes that are in malaria prone areas and it can be done. The Global Fund, which is an international body, had provided these beddings and nets to us, and what we need is to ask. I know that the Government of Kenya received a lot of money from the Global Fund. May be the next thing that we can ask for is are the nets. Malaria drugs were free, so there is no reason as to why we should not have enough malaria drugs in our hospitals. I believe that what is lacking is the capacity, maybe in the counties and I would like to support. Simple drugs such as for high blood pressure and diabetes are lifesaving yet they are not available. I think that health should be standardized, it should be the same not bad, but to the good side all over the country. It ought to have been standardized like education. I support my colleagues who suggested that we should think whether health should go back to national Government or should remain in the counties and maybe devolve it slowly to counties which are ready to be devolved as opposed to doing a blanket devolvement. I support."
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