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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Abass",
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        "legal_name": "Abass Sheikh Mohamed",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I would like to also join my colleagues to add onto Sen. Cherarkey’s Statement. It is very unfortunate that a medical doctor died as a result of being neglected and not given treatment immediately by the Kenyatta National Hospital, which is supposed to be the National Referral Hospital for all cases, whether it is a civilian, or a public servant, more so, for a doctor. Honestly, it is unethical. Kenyatta National Hospital must take responsibility for whatever has happened. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in this country today, issues to do with health have been so much commercialised. Whenever you take somebody who has had an accident to the hospital, you are asked if they are covered. Even if they are covered, you are told, “Give us time to contact the health insurance”, yet you have somebody who is actually bleeding all over. Why did they not treat the doctor first? If worse comes to worst, they can still hold him in the hospital. After all, he was even working there. Hii ni kukosa utu . It is just missing human understanding. Therefore, the Senate Committee on Health must take this seriously. It is not only Kenyatta National Hospital, but almost across all hospitals in Kenya, today. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also want to add on Gloria’s Statement that, Kenyans are so unemployed that they have become so desperate. Not only are they desperate, but people who are not employed, especially young men and ladies and women who came from universities are now looking for small jobs, like that of sweepers, then people are taking advantage of that condition. People have been taken to overseas where they cannot even get access to support. They are being underpaid after being duped and told that they are going to get good jobs, yet they end up doing useless jobs. The Cabinet Secretary must take responsibility. We must come up with laws that prohibit Kenyans from being recruited by unknown and greedy people like those who have been recruiting young men and women, causing a lot of problems for the country. It is high time the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection should take responsibility, and register all those people who claim to be recruiting agents. We must have a kind of legislation that will be able to bar or even offer compensation for anybody who has been duped and misled, that he or she will be employed..."
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