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    "id": 1237782,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1237782/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Endebess, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. Since the Majority Whip has asked why I am against this proposal, I want to state as follows: Clause 79 of the parent Act, not the amendment, provides that the national Government Department of Health shall develop policy guidelines for referral mechanisms and system of referrals from practitioners of traditional and alternative medicine to conventional health facilities, and may prescribe regulations for incidental and connected purposes which shall be implemented by county departments. Hon. Didmus Barasa is a traditional doctor. The Act provides for traditional and alternative medicine. In China, traditional medicine and alternative medicine go side by side. In Kenya, we also have people who practise traditional medicine. The Health Act provides for the traditional medicine practice. I do not see the difference with what you are saying because the Health Act already provides that the Cabinet Secretary shall develop policy guidelines for referral. Policy guidelines are already provided for in the Act. Whatever he is amending is already provided for."
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