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    "id": 1402208,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1402208/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13217,
        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Senator for Nairobi to highlight the malfunctioning of the health sector in Nairobi City County. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are just playing to the public gallery. We are doing a popularity contest by saying that doctors are being frustrated by the national Government, just to be politically right. I agree on the issue of interns, but how many Kenyans are paid Kshs70,000? Even P1 teachers are not paid that or the ECDE teachers whom we are pushing for a standard scheme of service. In my county, they are paid a salary of between Kshs5,000 to 10,000. Now, we are talking about Kshs70,000 to pay an intern. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to repeat what I said yesterday. I went for pupillage at my master, Serah Karuga, but I was never paid even a single penny. You heard the Cabinet Secretary say that it is stipend or pocket money. Even the SRC guidelines and formulations do not recognize stipend. The doctors want to have their cake and eat it. You are not yet qualified and admitted being a doctor, yet you want to enjoy the benefits of being a full-practicing doctor, which is unfair. It is like what used to happen in campus where you would transform your girlfriend to a wife by cohabitation without giving dowry. I know there is a process to it in some cultures. In the interest of time, I conclude by requesting doctors and nurses to come to the negotiating table. We can scale stairs as we review the terms, sit down with the Government and renegotiate the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). I saw people like Secretary General (SG) Davji Atellah and Wachira who can negotiate as their leaders as doctors and nurses go back to work and alleviate suffering by Kenyans. They should live by the Hippocratic Oath that says they will always choose life over money. Kenyan doctors are choosing money over lives, yet they swore as by the Hippocratic oath. I want to tell them because in their oath, like us, they say we will protect lives against material things. Why is it that when it comes to money--- I have tremendous respect, most of the unions leaders are my friends and we have had a discussion on this. I agree they have valid and genuine concerns. However, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you are a son of a clergy, the Bible says come ye, let us talk. That is why there is a reggae song by the riverside that says ‘let us examine, as I walk by the River Babylon.’ I want to appeal to doctors, get---"
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