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    "id": 1224990,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1224990/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13217,
        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Public Service Commission, Human Resource Policy and Procedures Manual for Public Service May 2016, recognizes the establishment, initiation and management of internship programmes in Kenya. The same states, inter alia, that internship programmes shall be guided by the relevant provisions of the Constitution and relevant professional bodies and other policy guidelines, and shall not exceed one year. The internship is a legal requirement and prerequisite for licensure and independent practice. The Ministry of Health is mandated to ensure that all officers are facilitated by posting to internship centres and paying their salary or stipend, whereas some cadres such as pharmaceutical technologists, nutritionists and dieticians are not paid that stipend. These interns were supposed to be posted in December, 2022, but this has not happened to date. Of great concern is the fact that we have seen other interns being posted without any communication on when the remaining interns are to be posted. While other interns are paid using job groups in the health sector, diploma clinical officers are only paid a meagre allowance that can cater for their basic needs during their internship. Delay in internship posting delays licensure and, therefore, creates anxiety, denies the graduates the opportunity to work and contribute to health service delivery as well as interruption of skills, mastery process, which impacts on the quality of health services delivery in the future. The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights to which Kenya became a state party on 23rd January, 1992, and in particular Article 3(2) provides that every person is entitled to equal protection of the law."
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