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    "id": 1371304,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1371304/?format=api",
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Maanzo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13589,
        "legal_name": "Maanzo Daniel Kitonga",
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    "content": "father was trying everything on earth to save his life, but he still died in the hands of doctors. I am sure they wanted to save one of their own. However, this was during the COVID-19 times, and it was very difficult. This was a strange disease that killed many doctors, nurses and medical personnel because they were the first ones to get exposed. Doctors get exposed to strange diseases. When people eat snakes and they catch strange diseases, and nobody on earth has discovered this disease, the first person to be infected is a doctor. They are dealing with very dangerous virus-oriented diseases from all over West Africa, in the Congo Forest, in Uganda and Kenya. These are diseases, just like COVID- 19. By the time they came up with a vaccination, it was a year and many Kenyans had died. I almost died of COVID-19 myself. I had contracted it from a client who did not warn me that he was sick. I had gone to court to represent him because his house was about to be demolished. I gave him a lift and the next day I was very sick. I heard he was admitted in a hospital and the doctors fought for his life. Doctors also helped me in those difficult circumstances, yet they were very exposed. Therefore, as we deal with these reports, we must look at the other side of the exposure of a doctor. Some of our children are going to become doctors. In fact, there are fewer people now training to become doctors. It has become a crisis. The few nurses and doctors we train are not hired here. They leave the country and go to serve other nations. We are beginning to have a deficit. The same thing is happening with pilots. We train and hire, but we pay them badly. So, they leave for other airlines. We need to do something about our medical profession here, so that our people do not go for lucrative careers outside. We train yet we do not have enough, so our people continue dying and we blame the doctor for being negligent. There are many cases where negligence has been suspected, especially with brain surgery, which is very delicate. It takes many hours. It takes the same time you will use to fly from Nairobi City County to New York City using Kenya Airways. That is the same time a surgeon will be on his feet. While the pilot is going to be assisted somewhere midway, the surgeon will not. He will be standing there to save a life for 13 to 15 hours. When he comes out so tired, he goes home to find his wife who has been waiting for many hours to have bread or milk, yet this doctor has not been paid by the county. What do you expect? The next time the wife will run away. This man will be so depressed. How do you expect him to handle patients when he is depressed because he cannot cater for his own family? We need to look at the wholeness of the matter and the psychological bit of it. We have not done very well with how we check on the medical status of the police, doctors and people who go through depressive jobs. Someone could already be sick, yet he is handling patients. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I support. We need to look at the whole policy of the medical profession and have good packages, so that our doctors can feel that we do not"
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