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    "id": 1193977,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 170,
        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "The other issue facing most of our hospitals is shortage of nurses. When I was working at Pumwani Hospital as a medical school student attached there, I remember walking into the labour ward to find five women whose babies are popping out at the same time and the nurse on duty is one. She had to decide out of these five women, who amongst them, she would go to assist receive the baby? The women will push all right because African women are very strong. You can imagine some of those babies would then just hit the concrete floor. The mother automatically looses her head to see her baby hitting the floor. It also does not help that of the majority of the delivery, babies come with head first. When the child pops out at the speed of a boda boda motor bike, it hits the concrete floor with the head first. It is worse off in the shortage of doctors. I have gone through experiences whereby, I go to the ward, I make a diagnosis that at least three women require emergency caesarian section or assisted surgical delivery. In emergency CS cases if you do not operate, in at least 30 minutes, the baby might die and, in the process, endanger the mother. However, when you are the only surgeon in the hospital and you have the three emergency CSs to perform, you have to close your eyes and pick one of them to be the first. I used to remember what we used to be taught in primary school as little children playing around that- “Tip tip top, here I go, if I miss, I get this”. Where my finger rests last, is the woman I would pick. By the time you are through with the caesarian section, and come to the ward, you will probably save the second child if you are lucky, but the third one must be dead. Mothers would actually lose their heads. I therefore congratulate the Sen. Kibwana for bringing this Motion. As this Motion goes on, we will eventually drive it into a Bill. We want to think a bit wider and much broader so that it applies to all these situations. Majority of the women you see going to procure abortion is because they have lost their heads. When they momentarily lose their heads because she either hates the boyfriend or the boyfriend has been insulting her on WhatsApp. Ordinarily, that women would not have attempted to procure an abortion. However, they do it in the backstreets because they are no longer in their senses. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I support this Motion, let me share a little experience with the female Senators for you to capture that. This is not a problem of poor people and those not properly educated. Let me give you my own story. My wife went to the hospital to deliver because we were expecting twins. However, the delivery was mismanaged. We got one of the girls but the other one died. When she got pregnant again with twins, the time for her to be admitted for delivery arrived. Happily, I started organizing our journey to the hospital. I told her, ‘ Twende kwa gari ’. I am so sorry for using Kiswahili. I told her to get into the car so we can drive to the hospital. I urged her severally to rush to the car so that we can go to the hospital but she did not want to leave the house. She then told me that she is not willing to go to the hospital. I asked her what the matter was but she insisted that she would not go because her child died there and she does not want another one to die. It was a twin like these ones and so they would follow."
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