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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kihika",
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        "legal_name": "Susan Wakarura Kihika",
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    "content": "is handled despite this Bill focusing more at the national level. In my county, I have heard a lot of doctors complaining and not just doctors. I am talking about healthcare workers and nurses and all that personnel as far as promotion is concerned. You hear a lot of them talk about the way it is haphazardly done or for years they still have not had any promotion. Madam Temporary Speaker, even during the time of pandemic when we required them to work very many hours, you hear many of them even went without salaries because the counties could not pay. It is a problem and it is definitely an issue that needs to be addressed. Remuneration is poor across the counties. There are a lot of occupational hazards for these healthcare workers. There is a need to have what Sen. (Dr.) Ali is trying to do using this Bill done. I am just hopeful that once it gets to the Committee, there will be a way forward that can be found where it is not just advisory but maybe it is done more at the county level. I am just trying to think out of the box a bit. I am really having a hard time, Sen. (Dr.) Ali, understanding how the Cabinet Secretary (CS) at the national level will, for example, direct the Governor of Uasin Gishu County as far as recruitment of doctors at that level is concerned. A way has to be found because there is madness going on with this sector in the sense of we have really neglected them. We have not been thankful as a country for the role that they play in keeping our citizens well. If you do not have healthy citizens, then it affects every sector of our country or of everything actually. It is really critical. Madam Temporary Speaker, I support this amendment but, again, with a little bit of reservation in the sense of saying that there needs to be found a better way to make it work in a binding way so to speak so that it is not only advisory and we are not just having a talk show. It is a Bill that when it gets out there, it becomes an Act that will help streamline as far as the recruitment, employment, deployment, promotion, transfers within counties or intergovernmental, training and all that sort of stuff are concerned. I am also aware that a lot of doctors do apply at the county level maybe to go for trainings abroad just to specialise in the different fields that they want to pursue. Half the time either the counties do not have enough personnel and so they are unable to release them or they do not have the financial resources to cater for that. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is an area that needs attention and streamlining. I am hopeful that as the Bill proceeds to through the different stages, we will come up as a House to help Sen. (Dr.) Ali realize what he is trying to do. I can see it but I just do not know how exactly it will help going forward. It is all just advisory. Thank you very much. I support."
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