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    "content": "belongs to certain institution or that health care worker receiving such consideration is obligated to disclose to the institution. The code is not meant to stop them from receiving that kind of consideration but to stop them from not disclosing which would, therefore, mean that they are doing something underhand. That is why I support the amendment by the Committee. I beg the Minister to look at it that way. When we say that healthcare workers are not allowed to distribute, the pharmacists are in their pharmacies actually dispensing these products. In other words, they are distributing these products. We are telling them no. So, the healthcare workers, including pharmacists and pharmaceutical technologists will not be allowed to distribute these products. With regard to demonstrating the use, there are those special circumstances where a baby or a mother may need to be demonstrated to how to use certain equipment. So, the equipment is not outlawed; that is the fact. However, we are stopping the healthcare workers from actually demonstrating that. I think that apart from impinging on professional freedom it also impinges on what they are actually trained to do. What we are saying is that there will be nobody available to train these people in case there is need. They should be discouraged from using it where there is no need. In case there is need, they will not be allowed to do it. In case there is need the pharmacies will not be allowed to dispense the same because that is a healthcare worker. That is why we are saying that we need to align this to the code. This is because this has gone beyond the code. What the Bill has done has gone beyond the code."
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