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    "content": "This means that the Ministry and the training institutions, including the universities, must involve themselves in a dialogue that will come up with a plan to ensure effective production of medical personal, including specialised personnel, to make our medical service effective. I share the concern of hon. Kioni, who noted that it is actually, in this day and age, rather shameful that we should be shipping out our people to look for a simple things like kidney transplant in South Africa, India and other places - a process that is prohibitively costly. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, if we did what other nations, like Taiwan, have done, we should have developed a medical centre. This would be used for specialised medical care, and to which the universities have access, where foreign specialists can come and practise medicine. For example, when somebody is going out for something like a hip replacement, which is simple “carpentry”, rather than go and do it in Great Britain, would be better to fly in a specialist here, who would use the equipment here; therefore, the knowledge from that kind of surgery would be domesticated. One other thing that happens when we export our pathology to other countries is that it is only doctors in foreign lands that learn about this pathology, develop knowledge on how it is to be cured, and that knowledge remains in foreign land, instead of being domesticated here. So, it is important that, as we improve our health services downstream, we also improve our health services upstream by developing centres of excellence that will enable us to pull ourselves upwards, and not downwards. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, we will come to Parliament with such proposals. I hope MPs will support us. With those remarks, I beg to move."
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