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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiambu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Waithaka",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support this Bill. I would like to congratulate Hon. Martin Owino for bringing this Bill at the right time. Health is an important aspect in the development of any nation. Good health and well-being is goal number three among the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Investing in good healthcare system, therefore, includes empowering the human resource, who are the health workers and ensuring that they have the training and the skills they require to carry out their duties. Part II, Clauses 3 to 16, provides for the establishment of the Medical Social Workers Council, whose objective will be to exercise supervision and control over the training and practice of medical social care workers in Kenya. We have seen many quack doctors in this country, including the famous Mugo wa Wairimu, who was jailed for 25 years in the year 2022. In 2023, Citizen TV reported that the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council shut down 44 health facilities across Nakuru County for failing to comply with the set standards. It was also established that some of the hospitals were operating with quack doctors and expired drugs on shelves, while some had lab samples that had gone bad. I recall when I was a young boy in the estates of Nairobi seeing housewives who were responsible for delivering children in the estates like Jerusalem, Jericho and Uhuru. At that time, the number of children who died was very low. I am hoping that those community health workers (CHWs) The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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