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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Ali",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, this amendment is straightforward. It does not need a lot of doctoring because it mainly concerns the Kenya Health Human Resource Advisory Council, which is already in the Health Act. Members of the health profession have suffered a lot for some time now. They have tried to even get involved in the BBI talks, so that there is constitutional amendment to form the health service commission, but that has not been successful. When the BBI was brought for discussion in Parliament, the Health Service Commission Bill was not part of the BBI Bill. In that regard, the workers in the health sector have continued to suffer for a very long time. The health professionals have made various attempts to establish the Health Service Commission, but they have not been successful. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the establishment of such a Commission will affect the constitutional integrity of the county government unless we achieve the same through constitutional amendment, which is not very easy. Getting two-thirds of Members of the Senate and the National Assembly is very hard. For us to help the health professionals who have suffered a lot in terms of training, inter-county transfers and promotions. Those challenges among many others have caused a lot of problems to the health professionals."
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