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    "id": 1021610,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1021610/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Navakholo, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Emmanuel Wangwe",
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        "legal_name": "Emmanuel Wangwe",
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    "content": "believe that since we were colonised by the whites, a white man has a better brain than a black man. That is very wrong. Our people have the intelligence and ability. There are good doctors in Kenya. When you go to the Nairobi Hospital, the Karen Hospital and the Aga Khan Hospital, you will find the best professors serving there. Therefore, let this open up the sky for our good doctors so that they are able to compete. As we support the Bill, what are we saying? Let us also be cautious that while subjecting our hospitals to competition, let it not open up a window where the agencies that license doctors ease up their ability to contain the qualifications of doctors who must really adhere to their training levels. Recently, we saw final year students from the University of Nairobi complaining that they were not seriously taken through the syllabus. It is our duty as legislators to allocate money to universities to educate our doctors. Let that money be used wisely and correctly because at the end of the sixth year, once our doctors graduate, they have to be the best in the region. We hope that we will now be able to compete with other doctors. We cannot compete if our training is compromised. Let us make sure that the resources we allocate to training our doctors go into the right hands and let universities produce the best, so that when we are competing, we are doing so from the same level. Once this Bill passes, it will not just be a medical Bill. It will have other effects. The effects of the Bill are that you will require permits to travel. We need to look at the enforcement of the work permits. We do not want to see a surge of foreigners coming in under the guise of aiding local hospitals yet we have able doctors. Let us tighten the issuance of permits. Let us not open the window so that foreign doctors compete with our home-grown doctors. We also need to tighten the legal frameworks in terms of paper work. You will find that in order for you to compete properly, you will be required to have proper paperwork. This refers to permits and a passport to travel. People should not just say they are Kenyans and they acquire a Kenyan passport yet in the real sense, they are not Kenyans. We must make sure that the Ministry of the Interior and Coordination of National Government tightens up the regulations so that only true Kenyans compete with others. This Bill seeks to open up medical tourism. We will look at the advantages that it will offer us. Universal healthcare is a pillar that the President is working on. He has the ability to give us Universal Healthcare Coverage."
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