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    "id": 129177,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang-Nyong’o",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, with respect to sexual offences, we are doing our best to make sure that people who are qualified, and who are properly prepared, deal with these cases, because sexual offences are extremely sensitive and highly emotional offences that require psychological counselling and other forms of human comfort. So, nurses and doctors, who have to deal with sexual offences, must be very carefully prepared for the work they do. It is something that the four centres of excellence we have mentioned, together with the Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC), are giving very careful attention to. When it comes to other qualified personnel in all hospitals, I have said over and over again that the baseline survey that the Ministry has completed has revealed tremendous shortages in qualified personnel in this country. For example, we have a tremendous shortage of anesthetists in the country. The University of Nairobi produces only 13 anesthetists per year. That means we have several hospitals with surgeons, who do not have people who are qualified in anaesthetics to carry out surgeries. We have very few ENT specialists in the country. In the whole of Nyanza Province, we have only two ENT specialists. The University of Nairobi, again, produces very few ENT specialists. So, we not only need to produce more personnel in the country, but we also need to make sure that they are posted to these facilities to work. As I speak, I am frightened by the shortage of both qualified personnel in our health facilities as well as modern equipment. It is a crisis that this nation should pay particular attention to."
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