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    "id": 1151450,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Pareno",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Judith Ramaita Pareno",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank you again for allowing me to move this Bill; that pursuant to Senate Standing Order No.141(1), The County E-Health Bill (Senate Bills No.39 of 2021) be now read a Second Time. This is the first time this Bill is coming for Second Reading. Initially, I had moved a Motion, which later on, we graduated into this particular Bill. Therefore, I will also not take lot of time canvassing what is in this Bill. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I started thinking about this Bill when, through your permission, we had a conference and visited a referral hospital in Ghana. As part of fieldwork on the training we underwent, we went to a referral hospital in Ghana. We found a call centre, where attendants were attending to phone calls. You could see that they were receiving messages and there was some kind of communication going on. In that call centre, we asked what they were doing and they told us that the call centre serves to coordinate and receive messages, clinical notes from upcountry local dispensaries. Therefore, they were able to communicate to the referral hospital without necessarily having to go all the way to Accra to present or refer their cases. Again, I compared with the experience in Rwanda. The Republic of Rwanda being a partner state of the East Africa Community (EAC) is almost the size of Kajiado County. Actually, Kajiado County is slightly bigger than the Republic of Rwanda. We are told that in the Republic of Rwanda, a drone drops medicine from the centre, where they get medicine to the dispensaries in the country within 20 minutes. Having been a Member of the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) because we used to rotate, I know that there is Wi-Fi in every public place and hotel. You can get online any minute and access whatever you want. Therefore, we thought of a Bill. Looking at what was happening in our universal healthcare systems, technology cannot be underrated at this particular age and time. I thought about this: suppose you have a call centre in every dispensary in our upcountry places, where we do not have nurses. At some point, the only person you can access is clinical official, or at most a nurse and there is no any other specialist."
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