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    "id": 1235894,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1235894/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Taveta, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Bwire",
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    "content": "That is why I want to support the proposed amendment by my colleague, Hon. Didmus Barasa. Having looked at the law and consulted my colleague, I understand the mischief that he seeks to cure and not a gap in the law, but merely an enforcement issue. Why do I say so? This morning, I happened to come across the Medical Practitioners and Dentists Act. Section 23 of that legislation gives power to the Cabinet Secretary to enact regulations to ensure that there is proper administration of health services in Kenya. Pursuant to that provision, there are also the Medical Practitioners and Dentists (Referral of Patients Abroad) Rules, 2017. Those rules clearly cover what Hon. Didmus wants to introduce. That is why I mentioned to him that if the issue is about enforcement, or failure by medical practitioners to comply with the Rules of 2017, merely because they are a subsidiary legislation, my proposal is that we pick the good from those rules and add them to Section 79(a) that he wants to introduce."
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