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    "speaker_name": "Kilome, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Thuddeus Nzambia",
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        "legal_name": "Thaddeus Kithua Nzambia",
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    "content": "that deals with the physical wellbeing of Members. For effective resumption of the health club services, the proposed renovation and refurbishment by the management should be completed. Regarding health club staffers such as masseuses and reflexologists, the Committee notes preference of Members for youthful staffers. In the Committee’s observation, Members are generally reluctant to patronise outsourced health clubs. The budget for outsourcing should, therefore, be rechanneled to set up the health and wellness unit. For seamless protection of Members at the health and wellness unit and other parts of the Parliamentary Square, the Committee lauds the efficient services offered by officers contracted from the National Youth Service (NYS). At its sitting held on Thursday, 6th August 2021, the Committee made the following recommendations to the House: 1. The Parliamentary Service Commission should establish a parliamentary health services unit within Parliament with a clinical and a public health sections and a health club section. 2. The Commission should facilitate refurbishment and renovation of the current health club in compliance with the protocols and guidelines issued by the Ministry of Health on containment of COVID-19. 3. The budget meant for outsourcing health club services should be channeled towards setting up a health and wellness unit. (I can report that the renovation and refurbishment is ongoing as we speak.) 4. The Commission should expedite completion of the multi-storey building to provide a lasting solution to the issue of a health and wellness unit. (I think the progress is good.) 5. The Commission should put staff deployed to the current health club dealing with massage and reflexology on five-year term contracts renewable once upon satisfactory performance. (This is a very touchy issue. Most of those staffers are only given one-year renewable contracts, which makes them discouraged and demotivated.) 6. The Commission should consider engaging the 47 security officers seconded from the NYS on permanent engagement terms to tap the invaluable experience in protection of Members and property of Parliament obtained in the past six years. (Those 47 NYS staff do not even report to Parliament. They have their own bosses outside Parliament). Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move and request Hon. Ichung’wah, the Member for Kikuyu, to second. Thank you."
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