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    "id": 1286332,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "There is the issue of standards and the various bodies that manage the practice of professions. For example, if you were to be a lab technician, some of these Community Health Promoters (CHPs) will be carrying out tests in our homes. Therefore, what will be their place vis-a-vis that of the Kenya Medical Laboratory Technicians and Technologists Board (KMLTTB)? It is important that we make a provision, perhaps, by way of amendment when we are done with the Second Reading of the Bill, in order to make sure that all these national bodies that have expertise that has been built over the years, are not lost by keeping them at the national level and yet, they do not have representative offices. With all these resources we are raising, nothing makes it impossible for KMLTTB, the one for nurses and for doctors, to have a resident office in each of our counties. Madam Temporary Speaker, I say this because of the issue of standards. The fact that we are sending people to test people in their homes and give health advise does not mean we should blur the lines in healthcare service provision. We do not want to have instances where a CHP goes out to draw blood and yet, they are not trained lab personnel. These standards must be observed. Later on, the Committee must assure us ways in which that has been covered because I have not seen that in the Bill, and it should also be moved by way of amendment. With those remarks, Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to move and request the Chairperson of the Committee on Health, Sen. Mandago, to second. I thank you."
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