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    "id": 1242914,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mumma",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for allowing me to speak to this issue. I urge that we support this Petition. I also urge the Standing Committee on Health to treat this as urgent. As far as I know, universities are not allowed to incorporate a medical school unless the school is attached to a teaching and referral facility. When Kenyatta University began, it largely focused on education. The University of Nairobi focused on engineering and medicine. Eventually, when Kenyatta University applied and introduced the medical school, it was facilitated to set up the Kenyatta University Teaching, Referral and Research Hospital (KUTRRH). What is said in that Petition is appalling; that anybody would deny the Kenyatta University students and medical school trainers or lectures from using the very same facility that was setup because of that medical school. It sounds like a big joke. Kenyatta National Hospital is a teaching and referral facility for the University of Nairobi. Moi University also introduced a medical school and MTRH was set up to train the doctors from the university in a practical manner. As Sen. Sifuna puts it, it is a matter of commonsense and we should not belabour it. The head of the KUTRRH possibly needs to step aside if they can be presiding over a policy decision that can deny the university the use of the facility. They are churning out into the labour market a team of doctors and other medical personnel who are not well trained because they are denying them this opportunity. This country’s need to have properly taught medical personnel is bigger than having so or so being the chairperson or Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of that teaching and referral hospital."
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