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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "Saying that is very simple, but have we ever taken just a pause to think about any level of hospital in our communities whether a dispensary or a Level 1, Level 2 or Level 3. After any kind of medical procedure, who ends up handling your clinical waste? What is the life of that person who ends up picking the clinical waste from the point where the waste is given to the last point where it is disposed? Where is that waste disposed? Think about the ecosystem of clinicians, nurses, pharmacists, specialists, simple laboratory technicians and anybody who is handling any kind of medical issues in the hospital. If we do not think about this as an entire ecosystem that needs collaboration among all people who are inter-professionals in this docket, then medical errors are bound to happen in any way that leaves our sick nation worse off than when people get to hospital. I wish we can listen as a country. When our doctors say that they do not have proper payment, we must listen to them. When our UHC workers say that they do not have enough compensation to make them work in these medical institutions, we must listen and support them. It is lack of commensurate investment in these inter-professional teams that sometimes leads to some of these errors that are very costly, that lead us to a number of deaths that are never reported. If there was no one to bring this Petition to the Senate, perhaps we could have never heard about Ms. Annita's demise in our borders. I encourage us, as a people, and mostly the National Assembly teams that usually have got control over allocating money to different institutions, including in the healthcare system, that for once, listen to the entire ecosystem. Do not just think that when you solve the issue of doctors or nurses, then the issue of medical provision and all others are solved. This is an entire ecosystem. Every single person who works in our hospitals, from the sweeper, the person who feeds us, the person who handles clinical waste, the person who brings medicine, to the pharmacist, all these inter-professional teams are important. We must invest in them and make sure that there is no chance for error in a place where people go to get recourse to get better health care. I hope that other institutions will be able to glean some lessons from what happened here, and if possible, we all work together to avoid such kinds of losses in the lives of our people. Most importantly, we must hold MTRH properly to account. I support."
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