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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support the Statement by Sen. Cherarkey on the question of the terms of engagement for clinical officers. It is sad that the Ministry of Health has not taken up issues to do with labour matters seriously. We know that health is delegated, but the attitudes have also been delegated to the county governments. Clinical officers are treated with disdain and contempt in the county governments. When the Committee on Health is investigating this Statement, I urge them to not only restrict themselves to Nandi County, but to also focus on the rest of the counties in the Republic. The clinical officers do more work than the doctors. They are the first line of defense when it comes to treating the sick in hospitals. We know that doctors are fewer than the clinical officers. They do more work than the doctors. The public health sector in various counties have not treated the clinical officers well. The attitude of the public health has continued to deteriorate. I urge the Committee on Health to look into this matter as well. We have had a problem with interns who were employed under the Universal Health Coverage(UHC). This was done sometime in 2020. They were taken in because at the time the Government was trying to boost its universal health reach and to boost the war against COVID-19. In Tana River County, we had 24 UHC interns who were also employed. They were given employment contracts for one year. When those contracts expired, they were told by the county governments that there is no money to absorb them. Even those who had graduated, those who were qualified and employed under the UHC arrangement were told to go away. The treatment of our health workers is unacceptable. As the Health Committee sits down to look at the issue raised on the clinical officers, they should extend their tentacles to look at the issue of UHC interns and the other interns who were employed. The Committee must look into the matter and try to make sense of why the Ministry of Health took people and gave them employment numbers under the Ministry. Now that"
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