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    "id": 22787,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang-Nyong’o",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Medical Services",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 193,
        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
        "slug": "peter-nyongo"
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, we also need to strengthen our hospital management systems. One of the reasons why there has been waste in our hospitals and ineffective services is because we are trying to put square pegs in round holes. Our professional doctors are very well trained in their profession and we need to give them time to practice their profession, rather than divert them to other professions for which they were never trained. That is why using our professional doctors - be they physicians or surgeons - to administer and manage hospitals has been a wrong strategy to get proper management in our hospitals. We have initiated a programme whereby we shall employ professional managers and administrators to run our hospitals. The first initiative is at the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) where we now have a professional manager and administrator, well proven by his record at the Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS), to run that hospital. The results are impressive and I appeal for this House to support the Ministry in this initiative because this is the only way that we shall provide proper services in our health facilities. That initiative will help us manage cost- sharing resources much better and, therefore, plough back into our hospitals the money that our people put into those facilities when they go for treatment. Therefore, to strengthen the management of the hospitals is very important and we have had discussions with the Aga Khan University and Strathmore University for the training of hospital managers of all cadres, so that the management system can respond to modern requirements for running health services."
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