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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "itself on this issue with finality and not recommendations. It has to be resolutions of the Senate. Secondly, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, if the Senate cannot make a substantive resolution, then we will invite the President of this country to make a pronouncement that is with finality. This is because I look at the issues the doctors are talking about in this country and what they touch on. Sen. Sifuna said here that it seemed like we do not understand these interns and medical doctors, but we should try understand what they are crying about. That is very well stated in this document. Let us show that we understand what they are talking about. The first issue is that of posting and remuneration of medical interns. They are talking about provision of comprehensive medical cover for doctors. A doctor treats everyone, but they cannot afford the same medicine they are giving other people. They are talking of involvement of doctors in the UHC. We have a coverage that we want to reach everyone in this country and the doctors have no voice in it. How is this difficult to understand? They are talking about salary arrears that have been there since 2017 that have not been given to them. What is so hard about understanding that? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the doctors are talking about support for career development. In other countries, if you were to look at their scheme of service, it would be a clear one and the Senate where I find myself in today would be very elaborate about it. This would be what scheme of service should we give our doctors and health practitioners in this country. Today, if you look at the doctors’ scheme of service, even the most revised one, there is no well-defined career structure for those doctors. A doctor after graduating goes to where they have been given an opportunity to work whether in a public or private hospital, but there is no clear career structure. Today, in this country, there are no well-defined Job Descriptions (JDs). You have studied very well a specific function as a doctor, but when you are put in a hospital, there are no clearly defined JDs for you. You might find a surgeon being placed to simply provide Panadol."
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