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    "id": 1252665,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sabatia, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Clement Sloya",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to support the Bill by Hon. Didmus Barasa on the Health Referral System. A referral system is supposed to be controlled because we have seen very many cases where patients went to different hospitals and got unnecessary referrals to other hospitals which did not have capacity to attend to the issues referred to them. A medical referral should be from a low-capacity medical facility to a facility with advanced medical systems capable of dealing with complications being referred to them. At times, poor communication between hospital professionals result in unnecessary costly referrals which should be controlled at some level so that we have a referral system that can be of help to our people. We need to have an improved interaction between healthcare network professionals. In this country, a patient may go to a facility like the Nairobi Hospital and be referred by a doctor to a facility owned by one of his professional colleagues even though the later may not have capacity to satisfactorily handle the patient. In order to ensure that patients are taken care of in the best way possible, we need to have a controlled referral system. I have a case in mind, where patients are referred from a health centre to a referral hospital."
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