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    "id": 1237824,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1237824/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Uasin Gishu County, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gladys Boss",
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    "content": "Historically, the Ministry of Health has even had problems transferring medicines from the national Government down to the county government level or to the village dispensaries. We are now introducing an extra bureaucratic process that will require them to make rules on how you decide to seek medical attention. If we allow those regulations to be made, several people will die while seeking medical help. Just getting someone to see a doctor at a public hospital or even getting a patient into theatre at a public hospital is already a nightmare. You are now telling me that they will be deciding who travels to whichever country to seek medical attention. They do not have the bureaucratic machinery to do so to that detail. Why do people seek treatment overseas? They seek medical attention abroad because we lack the technology or the know-how or costly treatment in the country. The decision on what kind of medical attention I would like to have is between me and my doctor. If my doctor does something wrong, there is the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board (KMPDB) that can discipline him. We do not need the Ministry of Health to manage him. As proposed by Hon. Didmus Barasa, if there is need to rein in rogue doctors who are referring people unnecessarily, that can be dealt with by KMPDB. It does not have to be by the Ministry of Health because that is a problem of an individual doctor. It is not a national problem. We cannot get national policy solutions for professional individuals. That is the wrong way to go. In that case, we will now begin to say that the..."
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