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    "id": 987980,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/987980/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Murang’a CWR, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Sabina Chege",
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        "legal_name": "Sabina Wanjiru Chege",
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    "content": "As I thank the health workers who have really given their all, I also want to thank the Ministry because they have also established their centre which specifically takes care of our health workers. But as the Budget and Appropriations Committee has requested, the Kshs3 billion should be accounted for by the Ministry to the relevant Committee, which is the one I chair. It is important that we think about Kenyans, for example, the case of one Mr. Jared, who was working as a watchman in one of the quarantine facilities and contracted the virus. But when he was taken to Kenyatta University Hospital, he was given a hefty bill. How do we expect that guard to pay for the bill? I hope the ministry will come up with a strategy to help the people at the forefront, including guards who might contact the disease especially in our public facilities. It is also my hope that as we give the money for boreholes and other essential services, as my colleagues have said, that money should go to helping Kenyans. There are some ASAL areas that are really needy like Mathare-ini in Murang’a County. It was reported in the news that people in Mathare-ini bought masks that looked like underwear because they could not afford to buy the real ones. So, I urge the Government to use the National Youth Service and the Kenya Prisons Service to make affordable masks for Kenyans. We know free things are sometimes abused. Such masks should go for Kshs5 or Kshs10 for Kenyans to afford them."
}