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    "id": 1567437,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "When you read the report, Dr. Ondigo and company--- After the young girl was released, no one referred to the team that did surgery. They did not even do a Computerized Tomography (CT) scan after the surgery, yet a foreign substance was still inside her body that later caused pneumonia, which killed the young girl who was only six years old. As we empathise and sympathise with the family, it should not happen in the modern-day Kenya. Today, we had the National Prayer Breakfast. We can only do some things after praying. This report by the Committee on Health should be amended to ensure that MTRH comes up with a proper way of keeping records. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, quickly so that I cede ground for my colleagues, under the Constitution, human rights are basic rights. The pleas by the mother called Mercy Kipchirchir were ignored. MTRH has a Public Relations (PR) Department. The complaints by the complainant were ignored until she sought assistance from the Senate. In this Report, the Committee on Health should have recommended administrative action against the PR Department of MTRH in Eldoret to explain why. Most of us here are parents. I do not know about Sen. Methu and Sen. Eddy, unless they tell us if they are parents. We know the pain of losing a child. Imagine she went to complain, but there was no one to listen to her and she lost her child. I expected the Committee on Health to recommend administrative action to be taken against PR officers at MTRH. That is the least thing we can do. If that can happen at the MTRH, how many people have lost their lives in other hospitals? There is a girl who delivered well in Kabiyet Sub-County Hospital. She was later transferred to Mosoriot Sub-County Hospital where she bled to death, but the County Government of Nandi did nothing. They did not even give counseling or a listening ear to the complaint of negligence where she had gone to deliver through caesarian section. We must be empathetic. I hope there are Members of the Committee on Health here. In this Report, they have not even recommended socio-psychological support to the parent. After losing a child, one is stressed and they could even have suicidal thoughts. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you are one of the longest serving MPs in this House. Parliament enjoys a High Court status. Therefore, we can make recommendations like a High Court. Let me quickly look at the recommendations by the Committee. I am happy, but equally sad. What the Committee has recommended is both sweet and sour, like a Chinese dish, trying to run away from responsibility, but at the same time, apportioning blame. The reading of Section 20 of the Medical Practitioners and Dentists Act, Cap. 253, as revised in 2012 and 2019, is very clear on disciplinary procedures. You can issue caution or reprimand. You can also order for remedial courses for doctors or medical practitioners. Two procedures were done. There was trichotomy and another one known as tracheostomy. Two procedures were done, but they never removed the foreign object. Dr. Ondigo and his team must be ordered to go back for remedial courses because after performing two procedures, they could not trace the foreign object inside that young girl. You can imagine the pain she underwent during that surgical process."
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