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    "id": 1036947,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1036947/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I join my colleagues in condemning any acts of negligence by our medical practitioners, especially the very painful act of taking a person who is still alive to the mortuary. However, we must also be sensitive that as a country we have not done enough to motivate our medical practitioners. We cannot have any justifiable reason why to date, there are hospitals that do not have PPEs for doctors, nurses or clinical officers. Today we had a sad case where we lost a physiotherapist called Ronald Nyarandi in Keroka Hospital. He caught COVID-19 in the course of trying to care for patients who are suffering with COVID-19. As a country, we need to have priorities. If we have these PPEs at KEMSA, the way Sen. Olekina has told us, why can we not take them and pay KEMSA and give them to our medical practitioners, because we are scaring them? They do not want to be near people suffering from COVID-19 because they fear that they may contract the disease. The Government should move urgently ensure that all these PPEs lying idle at KEMSA are supplied to all our health facilities across the country. I do not think there is any person we should value now in this war more than our doctors, nurses or clinical officers. I want to appeal to the national Government and to the county governments to take seriously the issues that have been raised by our medical practitioners. Thank you."
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