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"speaker_name": "Eldas, JP",
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"content": "determine the genuineness of a doctor in deciding whether Hon. T.J. Kajwang’ or myself or someone else requires specialised treatment, God forbid, in a particular facility outside Kenya? That can only be informed by the ethics and the consciousness of that particular individual during the recommendation. Even if we develop policies as anything under this particular proposal, we need to go back to the drawing board and ensure that we have a societal change that can be seen in our politics, economy, education and, generally, in the way we interact. I am told that between 1970 and 1974, Kenya was a lending nation. This is one thing that I keep referring to. We are still struggling to be classified as a middle-income country and yet the countries that we were with at that time, today, have joined the list of the league of developed nations. It is all because of our attitude. So, Hon. Mishra, I congratulate you for bringing this Bill, but I think you should think out of the box and ensure that those of you who are in that field are ethical and practise in line with what that profession requires. If that is done, these many referrals in the name of cartels that deny us our hard-earned foreign exchange will stop. If you ask the Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) about what can be developed, his answer will be the Foreign Exchange reserve. We all know that this country does not have a lot of gold reserve. We are still struggling to develop our oil fields. The little that we get as a result of our Diaspora earnings, fish earnings and camels that we sell through Ethiopia and Somalia - we do not have developed markets for our camels here - is used up in other areas. We would have saved it for other development purposes. These are things that we must be prepared to address. Otherwise, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this is good. It is timely and progressive, but I hope that once it gets assented to by the President, it is implemented. I see it talks about the Cabinet Secretary coming up with regulations. They should be proactive and cover all aspects not only of legislation, but also all aspects of the medical field. The proposed law should not tie the hands of medical practitioners and should not also disadvantage patients. It should seek to contribute to the development of the medical field. Finally, this giant facility that we have, and we need to even thank our forefathers for it, in the name of Kenyatta National Hospital is right now, luckily, being managed by my former schoolmate, Dr. Kamuri. I know he is well travelled. Once upon a time, it was a giant institution, not only in East Africa, but in the entire East, Central and the horn of Africa. Today, if you ask yourself how many Kenyans have the guts to be referred from one of the clinics to KNH - I know Dr. Kamuri is doing tremendous development at the KNH - the funny question that one will ask is: How many hours am I going to spend there? These are things that we must cure professionally, so that as a country we can leap forward."
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