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    "id": 20637,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "The Minister said that he is satisfied with the quality of service delivery at the hospital and I want to table two documents. These documents arose upon realizing the rot at the directorate of this hospital. The Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentist Board, the highest quality assurance institution in matters of health in Kenya went and sat in a full board meeting - I have carried the recommendations of this particular board - and wrote to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Local Government, Mr. Musalia Mudavadi; the Minister for Medical Services, Prof. Anyang’-Nyong’o and the Minister for Public Health and Sanitation, Mrs. Beth Mugo, on 17th June, 2011. This Committee recommended that a caretaker committee must immediately be appointed to take care of the on-goings at Pumwani Hospital so as to stop the maternal deaths – 19 of them in six months. They also ordered for an inquiry into the affairs of this hospital. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, finally, the Director of Medical Services, Dr. Francis Kimani, in a letter dated 4th July, 2011 and jointly signed by the Director of Public Health and Sanitation, Dr. Shariff, decided to respect the advice given the by The Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentist Board. They went to the institution and confirmed that, indeed, this doctor was not able to deliver. They went ahead and posted the doctor. But because of the political connections and the powerful offices, including the one of Mr. Musalia Mudavadi, the advice by the Board and the two directors of medicine have been ignored by Ministers whose only claim to matters of health is laymanship."
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