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    "id": 1412903,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dadaab, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Farah Maalim",
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    "content": " I join my other colleagues in congratulating the Cabinet Secretary for making a serious effort. I know this is the beginning. There will be a lot of conversation on this issue. I ask the Cabinet Secretary whether the Ministry has ever considered something akin to what is called NHS in the United Kingdom (UK). We have the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) in the country. We need an institution that encompasses the entire health sector. It should look at the quality of training of doctors, nurses and physiotherapists. It should also look at employment of everybody in the health sector in a holistic manner. We have a situation where a consultant surgeon who had a straight A in his Form IV and went through university and did 16 years of education, being interviewed by an MCA who got a D+ in secondary school. Sometimes, we need to give this very critical sector the weight that it deserves. Those are people that we entrust with our lives. We need to look at this thing in a holistic manner. If it means looking at the Constitution, we should look at how we can have a body that will run this thing; it will essentially be involved in employment, benefits, etiquette and the Hippocratic oath that doctors take. We can have this thing similar to the way it is in the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) right now or the way they have it in the UK National Health Service and a number of European countries. We do not have to reinvent the wheel. I understand that in the Kenya Constitution, 2010 there are a lot of things that need to be changed; having experienced it for over 10 years now. Can we look at it in a holistic manner and can the Cabinet Secretary give us an undertaking on that possibility. Thank you."
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