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"content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I will go to my contribution. I will comment on the issue raised by Sen. Onyonka about human organ trafficking. I call upon the Chairperson of the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board, Prof. Stanley Khainga, who was my classmate from high school all the way through medical school. He should know that the eyes of the country are on him. He, together with the Principal Secretary, Ministry of Health, the Cabinet Secretary for Health and the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration should have gone to Eldoret and closed that thing people are calling a hospital. I saw some so-called Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of that hospital struggle to say that they are a world-class centre of doing kidney transplants. She was actually speaking in broken English. A world-class centre cannot employ people who are illiterate. They should not play around with the children of the poor. I want to see a child of a Cabinet Secretary or Principal Secretary going to donate a kidney for somebody who is unknown to them. In medical ethics, organ donation typically occurs within families. Before such a donation is conducted, all necessary steps, including DNA tests, are carried out. We cannot allow people to be exploited. What a pity. Accepting a payment of Kshs300,000 in exchange for an organ that will profoundly alter your life while others profit millions of shillings from that organ through conmanship, must stop. We must protect the poor. If it is not---"
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