National Assembly Majority Leader Aden Duale has said that the decision to devolve the health sector in Garissa County all at one was a mistake by the national government.

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Duale said that the health care should have been devolved in phases to avoid the challenges it faces now.

He said that according to the constitution, health care should have been devolved in three years but President Uhuru Kenyatta transferred all the functions at once.

The Garissa Township MP was addressing clinical officers from Garissa County at a local hotel during a sensitization conference in which he was the chief guest.

“When we formed the government, the president was arm twisted and bulldozed by the Council of Governors who told him to transfer all the functions. And the president gave in to that and transferred all the functions at once.”

“The health sector was to be devolved slowly and carefully in 3 years and in phases. We were to tackle one thing at time. The problems bedeviling the health care system was as a result of devolving all the functions at once,” said the Majority Leader.

Duale further said that devolution had demoralized the medics especially the health care workers accusing the governors of promoting nepotism adding that having medical doctors in the committee of health had created a conflict of interest in terms of legislation.

“Just because somebody is your relative, you just bring a quack and make him to be the head of a qualified team of professionals. It is very shameful. I hope the next bunch of governors will correct this,” he said.