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    "id": 1485050,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Speaker, you are in the Chairperson's Panel. When you retreat, you must come up with a robust working system that will ensure Bills do not take more than one calendar year to be processed. But that is beside the point. When you read through this Bill, I see that it is what we would call an administrative Bill. The Act will become an administrative one to professionalise community health volunteers. I would like to draw my colleague's attention to the three healthcare Bills that we passed. I hope he had an opportunity to tie up with the changes that we made in the Health Act that we passed here to implement Universal Health Care. They should be dove-tailed so that we borrow the best from them to avoid the repetition that is provided for. I want to be fair and brief. I draw the attention of the Mover of the Bill that if we are going to professionalise community health workers, I agree with the issue of training, which I will address shortly. I agree with the Mover of the Bill that if we want to professionalise community health workers, the issue of training is necessary. It must be made mandatory that any person who proposes to refer themself as a community health worker must be registered by the registrar. You cannot purport to offer any services or undertake functions akin to community health work if you are not registered and licenced by the registrar of the council. That way, we will entrench professionalism as we move forward."
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