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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "I thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. From the onset, I do support this Bill because the future of medicine must be digitized. This will ensure that you curate and tailor medicine and healthcare to individuals. Such that individuals can take control of their prevention measures on healthcare as well as deal with issues of cost in the best way possible. It even thinks about health providers who assist our people. In the spirit of standing for devolution as we have always done, with fully devolved functions to counties, this House must always rise to protect devolved functions. We cannot sponsor a Bill in this House where we are creating anything like a national agency, a national department or national councils. We have a unique opportunity with this Bill given that data management and protection is a different animal altogether. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the provision of this Bill that gives the function for the digital health agency should be revisited and we move an amendment to ensure that instead of a national digital health agency, we have county digital health agencies. That will be standing for devolution. This Bill provides for board of directors of the digital agency. This goes without saying that it is either we have that board of directors dominated by county officials or people who protect devolution, but not nationally or we have that board at the county level. This Bill does establish a comprehensive health information system. There needs to be a clarification to make the methodology of this system to incorporate an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) element in counties for better data collection and protection. This Bill also provides for a consent to e-health services, but it does not give a comprehensive protection of rights of both patients as well as give obligations to people who are taking data from patients to protect those rights. This is something we can amend and make this Bill better. The Bill talks about health tourism. It is also important that there is harmony so that health tourism is well regulated. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Senators have stood up and raised a very serious issue and I have seen you deal with such before in this House. This is about plagiarism of a Bill of another Senator in this House. I did not want to rise on a point of order to seek your"
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