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    "id": 1110324,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
        "slug": "kipchumba-murkomen"
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    "content": "Public Service Commission and the Public Service Commission at National level will provide an advisory role to the counties when it comes to human resource matters that are related to the counties. If you look at the structure that we have, unfortunately we cannot manage county functions at the national level. Every entity of county government, for the 47 county governments have their independent institutional County Public Service Commission to carry out human resource matters in the county. The National Government entity that advises them on matters of human resource is the Public Service Commission at the national level. This is the reason why many of the counties were struggling. In the BBI and the constitutional amendments the health workers have really worked very hard to push for the health commission at the national level. The other day, I saw the Governor of Mombasa exposing his ignorance in public when he wrote a statement saying the BBI has collapsed and therefore, the Health Service Commission which would have helped health workers will not be passed. The truth is that the Health Service Commission was not in the BBI Bill. It was actually not there. In fact, the doctors were part and parcel of the petitioners at both the High Court and the Court of Appeal complaining that one of the reasons why they opposed BBI they had not heard of the establishment of the National Health Commission. I understand why Gov. Joho would not understand this because nobody knew exactly what was in BBI actually; it was very few people, even those who signed. You saw those who went to the KICC and signed the BBI Bill, they later came out and said, you know it was a bad Bill, because they were not aware of the content. I hope that Gov. Joho will update his knowledge to what is happening in our country especially on this healthcare issue. Be that as it may, in the absence of an amendment of the Constitution to establish or to remove the human resource element as a function of the County government, we will find ourselves in this difficulty that the Mover, Sen. (Dr.) Ali, who is also a Member of the Committee on Health, finds himself in. This Amendment Bill has been drafted carefully to survive the constitutionality of the structure that is there, but at the same time, provide some semblance of a solution to a problem that is real and existing. This problem is real because the health function and our health workers are suffering. If there is a community and a profession that is the most underrated, despised and mistreated, it is the health sector. I say this without fear of any contradiction. The best students in our country chose to study Medicine. The best profession in the country that admits the best students in the country, the ‘A’ students, is the health profession. You are invited to go and study medicine, spend six years in school, become an intern for another year or two years and get the highest qualification to deal with human life, then, what happens? You struggle to get a job and when you get a job in County ‘X,’ you survive under the mistreatment of political actors at the local level, who have zero respect for your medical profession or desire to make sure that the health sector is succeeding. They are actually not only denying the health workers salary, including nurses, clinical"
}