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    "id": 1814,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1814/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kambi",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Medical Services",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 39,
        "legal_name": "Samuel Kazungu Kambi",
        "slug": "samuel-kambi"
    },
    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, clearance to pursue training is necessary to ensure an orderly training programme, rationalization with the training budget and continuation of service delivery. Postgraduate students who have followed this procedure are drawing salaries which they are entitled to as per the service regulations. Post-graduate students pursuing training at KNH and Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital fall under these two categories as follows: Those who are not employees of the Ministry before starting the training, former employees of the Ministry who resigned or deserted duties to pursue the training, the Government is not responsible for paying salaries to either category as they are not Government employees. Resignation from the Civil Service follows an employee’s moral obligation or private choice and does not attract terminal benefits. The Ministry is not privy to any morality issue obligated to the Director of Medical Services or his assistants to resign. On the contrary, the Ministry regards the Director of Medical Services as an exemplary performer. His insistence on high performance standards by doctors and strict enforcement of service regulations may, perhaps, be the reason the petitioners want him out of the office. Some of the petitioners may also be targeting the Director of Medical Services and his team for deploying them in areas they consider remote and unattractive. It is the duty of the Director of Medical Services to deploy doctors to all parts of the country as per their needs."
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