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    "id": 1143139,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1143139/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mwingi Central, WDM – K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Mulyungi",
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Mutemi Mulyungi",
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    "content": "about. If UHC is achieved and we also pass this Bill, then a lot of issues in healthcare will be sorted out. As you know, all professionals world over are regulated, starting with doctors, dentists, nurses, pharmacists, lawyers, engineers and architects. They are all regulated. So, why on earth were community health workers discriminated against? The Constitution does not allow discrimination. Why were they left out when all these other professionals were being regulated? I must thank Hon. Martin Owino for coming to the rescue of community health workers so that they can be treated equally with other professionals. Regulating professionals is good so that a profession is not infiltrated by quacks. In accordance with this Bill, community health workers will be registered. We will even know how many they are in Kenya. They will be regulated so that their conduct is in accordance with the law. They will also undergo continuous professional training so that they are in touch with current trends in healthcare. Moreover, they will be disciplined in case they misbehave. Traditionally, all these professionals have been around. There have been midwives and traditional medicine men and women. Where I come from, there is a gentleman who treats snake bites. I have just received a message of a child bitten by a snake this morning and has passed on. This gentleman used to be my mathematics teacher. He has converted himself into a community health worker. He treats snake bites better than hospitals. So, this Bill is very useful to people like him. They will be recognised. Finally, I thank Hon. Owino for this Bill and ask this House to support him and support the Bill. I support the Bill. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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