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    "id": 1109385,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1109385/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang'",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13162,
        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "In my county, when there are delays in payment of salaries of county workers, everybody else is going about their own business like nothing has happened. The only place where service shuts down is in the hospitals. This is because our doctors having taken the Hippocratic Oath they still have that sense of integrity knowing that when a patient brings money to the hospital, it is not to go into their pockets. It is supposed to buy drugs for those institutions. Madam Temporary Speaker, our doctors are suffering silently under mental health pressure. During the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) situation, doctors were seeing their fathers and mothers dying on floors of hospitals. Even if you are used to the cadaver and you have taken the Hippocratic Oath, it would still affect you yet they had nobody to turn to because our counties do not have mental health experts. That is why one of our greatest exports today is doctors and nurses. The conversation that the Ministry has brought that we now need to look at our health workers as a commodity just like tea, horticulture, fish and those other things we export. This is so that we have a structured way. Madam Temporary Speaker, if Kenya develops these health workers and trains these doctors to a level where they are proficient and they can work in the United Kingdom, why can Kenya not benefit from that? Just beside the remittances, can Kenya attach some value to the training that bit has afforded? We are saying that if Kenya is going to send nurses to the UK, the UK will pay some agency fee not to brokers but to the national government. Right now, these fees are being paid but to brokers. Let that money go to the national government."
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