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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Malalah",
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        "legal_name": "Cleophas Wakhungu Malalah",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I was pensively listening as Sen. Were was reading this Statement, and my heart was soaked in a pool of sorrow. It is common knowledge that it is a prerequisite for all the doctors to take the Hippocratic Oath, whose principles are held sacred and not limited to treating the sick to the best of one’s ability, preserving the patient’s privacy, teaching the secrets of medicine to the next generation, and so on. Many of my colleagues have quoted Article 43(1) of the Constitution read together with Article 43(2), which elaborate the economic and social rights of our citizens. Such cases are rising at an exponential rate in this country. This is just one of the cases, but we have thousands of such cases where patients are taken to hospitals, and when they do not have money to deposit, they lose their lives on the bench waiting for treatment. The cost of dedication in this country has gone too high. As the representatives of people, we must speak out on this specific issue. This House always passes the County Allocation of Revenue Bill, which entails conditional grants to Level 5 hospitals in our respective counties. In Kakamega County, we passed Kshs426 million as conditional grant. This money is meant to improve the health services in Level 5 hospitals and cushion against the rising cost of treatment in our hospitals. It is sad that these monies have been diverted to other development projects. It is, therefore, our mandate and sole responsibility to ensure that we put governors on check and compel them to use the conditional grants that we pass in this House to the betterment of the health systems in our counties. Mr. Speaker, Sir, to those doctors who have fronted their greed of money at the expense of life, I want to tell them that what kills a man always begins as an appetite. Your appetite for money is the genesis of your journey to your grave. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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