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    "id": 998570,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/998570/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ndhiwa, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Martin Owino",
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        "legal_name": "Martin Peters Owino",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, protect me from Hon. Kaluma. I want to say kudos to the Chairperson, Departmental Committee on Health, and the team because we have fought for this for a long time. On 27th April 2001, all Heads of State went to Abuja and resolved that health financing is critical to preparation of our health systems for any eventuality of disease outbreak. To date, 19 years later, we are not even halfway of what was declared - At least15 per cent of our GDP going for healthcare financing. I would have liked to see at least Kshs124 billion and not Kshs111 billion allocated to health, so that our healthcare systems can be strengthened. I am talking about the four levels of care. If you go to a dispensary today, many people are either having delayed diagnosis, misdiagnosis or wrong diagnosis which leads to wrong treatment. Crude deaths in this country are high. If the Ministry was to highlight them the way they are doing for COVID-19, you will be surprised. Heath was put as one of the four agendas. I had hoped that money would have followed that. When we pushed for the ceiling to be extended, we were told that that was the ceiling and it could not be extended. When you seal the budget for health, you are sealing the lives of Kenyans. Funding all these sectors with a sick nation does not make sense. So, let us review and increase the heath budget and everything else will follow. We cannot expect a healthy economy in a sick nation. The other item is on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET). COVID- 19 has shown us that technical training is the only solution that can help us get out of calamities such as this one. Therefore, the Kshs150 million that is being taken to, I do not know where, should be taken back to TVET, so that we can continue training our children. Lastly, ICT is the way to go. I want to appeal that the Kshs130 million being taken out of its budget should be returned, so that we can have digital literacy going on. With those remarks, I support."
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