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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank you for that latitude. However, before I proceed from where I left, allow me to join Sen. Mundigi in welcoming these young people from Embu. It pays respect to remind these young people that they come from a unique county; the County of Jeremiah Nyaga, one of the 15 members of the Cabinet of President Kenyatta in 1963, who served this country without stealing a cent from public coffers. It was, therefore, not by accident that he was inherited by his two sons, who were my colleagues in this House; Hon. Joe Nyagah and Hon. Norman Nyagah. Yesterday, I left when I had just begun. The difficulty I had yesterday was to convince the House that this is a delicate matter, which is going to pronounce that a doctor was negligent, thus responsible for the death of young Annita Jepkorir. It is delicate and we must understand that we do not find a doctor negligent by knee-jerk reaction. You must tick off boxes. You have to find out if there was misdiagnosis when the patient went there. In this case, Dr. Steven made the correct diagnosis. He diagnosed that there was a foreign object in the pulmonary system. So, you cannot indict him on that. Number two, was there failure to give treatment? Again, you cannot indict Dr. Steven Ondigo on this because he gave the standard prescribed treatment for removal of a foreign body in the pulmonary system. The third one is; was there surgical or anesthetic error? This is where I agree with the Committee that the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council (KMPDC) should establish whether the surgery that was offered by Dr. Steven Ondigo and his team was accompanied with errors. The question one has to answer when establishing negligence is whether the surgery that was done was necessary or unnecessary. On this one, you cannot indict Dr. Steven Ondigo. This is because the bronchoscopy that he did, followed by the subsequent thoracotomy that was carried out on poor little Annita, is the prescribed procedure that doctors use in the best international practices to retrieve a foreign object in the pulmonary system. The fifth question we must respond to before we indict the doctor is: were there any medication errors? Was a prescription made that should not have been made that could have caused the death of this child? Again, there is no evidence in this report showing that Dr. Steven Ondigo made a wrong prescription. So, you cannot indict him. Finally, on the issue---"
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