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    "id": 994321,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13131,
        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "County will need 822 ICU beds and 2,549 hospital beds. Are you even a quarter way to that? Kisii County, I can see Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri here, will need 3,326 ICU beds and 10,318 hospital beds. Are we close to that? This is because these county weight and resource needs have been done properly. This is the best case scenario where in February 2021 we are talking about two (2) million asymptomatic infections, 300,000 in hospital with 100,000 of them being critically ill. As the Senate, once this Report is out, we need to analyse resource in each county and say what we need to do. We cannot rely on county assemblies to do re-assignment of budgets. They put budgets where they know something follows. If you go to Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (KEMSA) today, their stores are full. County governments are not going to collect - we have a report on KEMSA, which we shall bring next week - They went to the President and said they need to procure directly because they will do their deals. However, those stores are full, yet in the counties like Isiolo, Nairobi and Bomet, there are no Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) kits and masks. Yet, the Government agency charged with that has stores in Embakasi and Industrial area full of that equipment. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, just expect us to bring that Report. I know that you have directed this to the Standing Committee on Health. Its Chairperson is a Member of my Committee. We will bring a substantive Report on county preparedness, the use of that Kshs5 billion and what we need to do going forward to the next financial year up until February 2021."
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