Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 1021611,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1021611/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 187,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Navakholo, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Emmanuel Wangwe",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2543,
        "legal_name": "Emmanuel Wangwe",
        "slug": "emmanuel-wangwe"
    },
    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this Bill opens up competition. In terms of medical knowledge, medics must practise from a good hospital. It is important now that county governments put up Level 6 hospitals so as to support efforts by the national Government. We need to have specialised regional hospitals. Let us not duplicate referral hospitals. For example, if we have a Level 6 hospital in Meru best known for spinal treatment, let us have another special hospital, say, for neurosurgery in western Kenya. In as much as these hospitals will be supporting UHC - a very good pillar under the Agenda Four by our President - they will all be operating under Level 6 status. They will discourage our doctors from 'exporting' patients out of Kenya. ‘Export’, in the Bill, means taking a patient out of the country and one has to pay for it. To 'import' is where we will be getting patients from outside Kenya. Therefore, we cannot effect this Bill if we do not put up good infrastructure, including hospitals that will allow patients from other countries to come into the country."
}