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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "No explanation is given to Kenyans that you need to know this can happen, this can go wrong, this can go right. All the time, and it is repeated. I am sure even as I am talking to you now, somebody is rushing into an emergency room. There is nobody at the reception to explain to them what the possibilities of a surgery. They are just asked to sign and then a surgery takes place. I wish that the country would adopt other types of medical procedures where patients are explained to what is supposed to happen to them in detail. This is not supposed to be done by a doctor. Most of these surgeons are very tired people. Some of them stand for as long as seven hours performing surgeries and the only thing they have is tiredness. The same person is supposed to explain to a distraught relative that they have lost their patient. In fact, they say lost rather than died like something that just went away. When somebody has died, there is need for a way to handle people in hospital. That is why we are saying this Annita Jepkorir should be an opportunity for us and the Ministry of Health to give guidance on what ought to happen when we lose a child or a person through medical procedure. Some of the patients are people who have been in the hospital for a long time, so maybe you have reasonable expectation that it could go either way. Some of the people walk into hospital fine and then you are told, you have lost your relative. There is need for serious support systems within all our hospitals, including our public and private hospitals. I think the Ministry needs to give guidance and regulations, and this should be named the Annita Jepkorir guidelines to hospitals in terms of managing situations; the psychological side of how we should treat patients and their relatives. I remember many years ago when people were very afraid of being diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, because at that time it was like a death sentence. What used to happen, and I still think it still happens to date, is that people are taken for counselling before they the HIV/AIDS test. It is a standard guideline that was set up by the Ministry of Health and now it is normalized. It is very normal that before you do your test for HIV/AIDS, you are told, you need to be given some counseling. If you do not need it because maybe you suspect your status, you tell them that you do not need to go through counselling and you can take your test."
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