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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wakili Sigei",
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    "content": "where the blame is to be taken. When we talk about a CBA that was signed, who signed it in the first place? Was it signed by the national Government, the county governments or the union? We appreciate the fact that the rights of the doctors and all employees is enshrined in the Constitution. They are entitled to have it to the extent that they have that CBA. Is it that there was an outright intentional failure to honour that part of the CBA? The question is out there and a concern to all the Kenyans. The intervention by the national Government, the Council of Governors (CoG) and the goodwill that we desire from among the unions who are exercising their right to fight for the rights of their doctors, whether interns or registrars, is welcome. I believe the hon. Majority Whip can comfortably defend that aspect; the way Sen. Sifuna defended the lawyers in terms of the desire not to compare apples and oranges, or interns and doctors and interns with lawyers. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the option that the Committee on Health is taking to intervene is something that we all should support, so that we have these doctors back to work. Most of the people who end up suffering are those who would go to public hospitals. None among the Members in this House as one Member stated yesterday, would largely suffer as that villager who entirely depends on services from a public hospital. It is something that we must call as is and have our own united effort to make sure that the rights of the doctors and those people who entirely depend on doctors for treatment and are protected. I, therefore, support and applaud the Chairperson and the Members of that committee for the effort to seek to intervene and support this cause of bringing the doctors back to work and support the people of Kenya. I thank you."
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