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    "id": 1504047,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay Town, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Chairman, I appeared before the Committee. As Hon. Millie has confirmed, I persuaded all of us who were before the Committee during harmonisation on the need not to establish a directorate to deal with matters whose mandates are already given by the Medical Practitioners and Dentists Act. I have given good reasons for it. I am still not persuaded. Before the Chairperson spoke, I was already thinking of an amendment instead of a total deletion of Clause 5, to say that the Kenya Medication Practitioners and Dentists Council (KMPDC) shall establish a secretariat known as Assisted Reproductive Technology Secretariat. That way, it will flow. When we start creating a directorate for every facet of health, you can imagine how many we shall establish. They also have ramifications on the finances of the State. Beyond that, my fear about establishing a whole directorate is that if you see the things being mandated not only as matters under the remit of KPMD, we will also be creating a structure for commercial surrogacy which we have already prohibited. Looking at all jurisdictions where altruistic surrogacy is permitted… I appeared before the Committee with an outline in terms of assisted reproduction across the world. Commercial surrogacy is prohibited because of that convention I read. They do not prohibit words like “directorate” or “commissioning parent”. I think I persuaded the Committee on this because it brings the idea of commercialisation. However, let us have a secretariat that licenses practitioners and sets guidelines that we are talking about here. It should establish, with clarity, the procedure for licensing and supervision of clinics within the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairman."
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