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    "id": 1484998,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1484998/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Endebess, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Robert Pukose",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I support this Bill by Hon. Martin Peters Owino. This Bill - and I want to confirm - came to my Departmental Committee on Health and we processed it. We will be proposing amendments. This Bill speaks to the structure of community health workers in terms of how they are going to be placed. They will have a council that will regulate their practice, training and registration within their country. As we speak today, community health workers are not properly regulated. They do not have a council. They do not even have formal training that is uniform throughout the country. This Bill will address some of those areas so that there is, at least, a minimum qualification for you to be called a community health worker. It will even go further. Once they are placed in a cadre and accredited, then it is possible for them to be promoted. The county public service boards will employ them formally so that they can have meaningful or gainful employment. As it is now, many of them depend on a stipend that is paid by the national Government at Ksh2,500 and county governments at Ksh2,500 per month. Some of the county governments are not paying. The pay is not regular. Even the national Government is not paying some community health workers. There is close to 7,000 community health workers with no kits to perform their functions. Once they have a council, they will have representatives and they will be eligible to form unions so that they can negotiate for better terms for themselves. With those few remarks, I support."
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