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    "id": 986406,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/986406/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Mbito",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13225,
        "legal_name": "Michael Maling'a Mbito",
        "slug": "michael-malinga-mbito"
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    "content": "To mention just but a few, in 2012, the Nairobi Hospital was taken to court vide Case No.407 of 2012 over the detention of a deceased person. Again, Karen Hospital vide Case No.448 of 2015 was taken to court over the same issue. Most recently in 2017, a police officer whose twins died after birth was detained in a Nairobi hospital for failure to foot a bill of Kshs3 million. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am further perturbed by the current story of a family in Gatuikira, Kiambu County, which in March was forced to hold the burial of their son without the body. This was after it was detained at Gertrudes Children’s Hospital over a bill amounting to Kshs17.8 million. The 13 year old boy, Brian Kimani, passed away in February this year. He had been undergoing treatment for Leukaemia for five and a half months before he passed on. This is a very sad state of affairs and the cruelty meted on the poor patient’s parents and relatives of this boy is unfathomable. For a family to have to bury an empty a coffin because of inability to raise the hospital bill is unacceptable by any standards."
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