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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "If the surgery has been acceded to and something has gone wrong, there needs to be Annita Jepkorir guidelines in all public and private hospitals in Kenya that will be telling the doctors and the hospital management that when someone has lost someone, the relatives must be taken through a certain process. It should not be doctors who just come out and say, we have lost someone. Madam Temporary Speaker, that is a speciality and most doctors are not trained in that speciality. Most doctors take the Hippocratic Oath to preserve life and do their best. When their best does not work, they tell you they have lost a patient or they had hoped for something but the patient is gone. They then leave you crushed right there in the hospital. They do not know how to handle the situation. I still remember the time, very early in the morning when we had a very bad situation about my first wife. No one explained anything to me in the theatre and it was a good hospital. Nobody handles your psychology or tells you what you need to do. In fact, as soon as we saw that there was multiple organ failure, what they did in that theatre was light up and put some heavenly music; about heaven being our home and this earth is not our home. I felt like it was so premeditated. They do not know what you are going through, they put on some music to tell you that this world is not your home. Who told you I wanted to go home at that time? Who told you that we, as relatives, wanted to let go of that person, at that time? Madam Temporary Speaker, you are a relative and you do not how to face your children so as to tell them that mum is not coming back. You know they were going to hospital every evening to check on her. This was a good hospital, but there are no counselling procedures. There is no one to tell you how to handle yourself. Although, in our family, we have people in the medical field and my younger brother is a serious doctor of many years and of good standing, I still think that the Ministry needs to come up with the Annita Jepkorir guidelines. This is because her parents suffered serious psychological problems when they lost their child and there was no one to talk to them. When they were struggling to find out what they could do, there was no one to help them. No one was there to advise them. Madam Temporary Speaker, there ought to be a desk in every hospital in this country, from Tana River all the way to Nairobi that says; here is how you lodge a complaint if you feel that a nurse, doctor or a clinical officer has mishandled you. In the entire country, there is nothing like that. The boxes that are there across the country in all ministries tell you that; if you have a problem with corruption, put your complaint here anonymously. Those are things that are there. So many people suffer negligence in hospitals. Some are told, “usisumbue” yet you probably have a serious emergency like a wife who wants to give birth in a public hospital. That person is desperate and is being told that if you do not want to bring this and that, take your patient back home and help her. People have suffered in this country. I hope the recommendations will include calling the current Cabinet Secretary for Health, for us to come up with the Annita Jepkorir guidelines. The current Cabinet Secretary for Health is proactive. He has been with us in our sister House, the National Assembly. We sat with him today when he came before the Committee on Delegated Legislation and he told us he has sat down with Aga Khan Hospital and negotiated that The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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