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    "id": 1337035,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sirisia, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Koyi",
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        "legal_name": "John Waluke Koyi",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. From the onset, I want to support the Kenya Drugs Authority Bill. I also thank the Chairperson, Dr Pukose, and his Committee for bringing this important Bill. Today, I have heard from Hon. (Dr) Nyikal that medicine for treating humans and animals is the same. I never knew that and was so shocked because I had never heard anything like that. Hon. Temporary Speaker, some of the pharmacists in this country are not trained. I have witnessed it even where I come from. Somebody has run a pharmacy for the last 25 years, and he is not a nurse or a doctor. But he sells medicine. I want to request this Committee under our Hon. (Dr) Pukose because he is a medical doctor to take action against those quack doctors and nurses who sell medicine, and they are not qualified for doing such business. We have lost the lives of many innocent people who are sick by going to look for medicine, and those people end up giving them the wrong medicine. It is good that the Committee has observed and come up with a Bill that we will support to ensure that we protect our people’s lives. I want the manufacturers in this country to wake up. During the COVID-19 time, I thought that the manufacturers of this country and doctors would also come out like South Africa to manufacture the medicine. South Africa manufactured medicine for COVID-19. We have doctors here and medicine manufacturers and yet, we have never seen them come out with a different idea that can save this country from importing medicine from out of the country. We also want to compete like any other country to ensure Kenya is on board in every aspect like medicine. I support this Bill. It is a very important Bill, and colleagues should pass it because it is important to us as a nation and the people of Kenya. Thank you. I support."
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