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"speaker_name": "South Mugirango, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Silvanus Osoro",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. This is a very important Amendment Bill by Hon. Didmus Wekesa Barasa. Health matters form an integral part of our structure. Our laws also provide that health is essential. After reading and internalising what Hon. Didmus is proposing, it is clear that medical centres and owners of those businesses take advantage of the lacuna in law and the regulations that are not provided for in the Act; they refer patients unilaterally to particular clinics or hospitals without following the due process. They take advantage of the fact that patients are ignorant, or at that particular time, they are very desperate. For instance, an expectant woman walks into a certain hospital for a review, but because the medical doctor runs a private hospital somewhere across the road, he will tell her that her case is very sensitive and will need a referral. He will then refer her to his private hospital and tell her that it is because this hospital does not have proper equipment to treat her."
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