Thank you very much hon members, firstly, when you talk about shortage of equipment, that issue of equipment is classified as part of the infrastructure. So, where we are talking about maintenance, we are including the maintenance on the equipment. Where we talk about refurbishment and replacement of new facilities, we include in them the issue of equipment. So, it all goes together as a package.
The issue that we are working hard to deal with is the overcrowding of the hospitals. The question that we raised about staffing is about ensuring that you do not have too few members working so that a lot of people end up being delayed because of
the shortage of staff. We are also looking at the creation of patient records so that people do not spend three hours waiting for their card at the outpatient filing system. We need to make sure that it takes a very short time for people to get their records retrieved.
We are also looking at moving some of the medications out of the hospitals, for those who do need to see the doctor, but just need to get their medication so that people can only go to the hospital because they need to not because they want to collect medicine. We also want to contract some of the private general practitioners, as well as some of the district hospital doctors to go out and help to decongest in clinics so that people do not need to go to the hospital just to see the doctor. All of those together, in the next few years you will be able to see that it would have decongested our hospitals. Thank you.