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    "id": 263438,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/263438/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyan’g-Nyong’o",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Medical Services",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 193,
        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
        "slug": "peter-nyongo"
    },
    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, first, let me make myself very clear. When I said humane, I did not mean that health workers are not humane. All I said, and the HANSARD bears me correct, is that if you issue a strike notice for somebody who is sick in hospital, who is on palliative care and who knows that the next day, he may not have a health professional looking after them, it is much more serious to that person, to you issuing the strike. This is because palliative care stands between you and their life. That is exactly what I mean. I meant that the health profession or any union engaged in the health profession is not like the mind workers union. Mine workers can go on strike, but gold and diamond will stay in the ground without changing colour or value for years. However, if health workers go on strike you know what the consequences are. Maybe, the first person, who goes on strike, is the one who will lose his mother, or his auntie, who is going to have a baby in the hospital. So, these issues should not be treated lightly in the health Ministry and in the health profession. We are really representative of the almighty on earth, given the power, and the ability to continue with God’s creation. So, I would appeal to Members and to the medical professionals really to travel an extra mile and in issue like this give dialogue and discussion more latitude than it is given in other union affairs."
}