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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Kibunguchy",
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        "legal_name": "Enoch Wamalwa Kibunguchy",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me this chance to contribute to this Motion, which is very dear to my heart as a medical doctor. First of all, let me thank Hon. Koinange for having come up with this Motion, and tell him that very soon we should get together and have this turned into a Bill. As we do that, there are certain areas that we shall have to relook at; what comes to mind immediately I look at the Motion is Article 43(2) of the Constitution, which is very clear. The operational words are “shall not be” – “shall not” means that there is no compromise. There is no debate; there is no halfway. But then the hon. Member says: “---this House urges”. Urging is like begging. I think we should be forthright and say that this House compels and not urges the Government. Let me go back a bit and talk about two or three things. One of them is the immediate hon. Member on the Floor who took a bit of time talking about emergency. Most of the time when you talk to people about emergency, many of them keep on thinking about it and what comes to mind immediately is accidents. But as a medical doctor, I know there are so many other emergencies that we need to keep in mind. I think one of the emergencies, or time bombs that we sit on, is pregnancy. Pregnancy in itself can very easily turn into an emergency, either at the time of delivery or during other times, when there are so many complications that can happen. For example, some of our ladies conceive and, unfortunately, the pregnancy lodges outside the uterus and that turns out to be a very big emergency. In our medical language we call it an “ectopic pregnancy”. Emergency can result from diseases like Malaria, which sometimes is cerebral. Emergency can result from poisons or snake bites. These days, with the changing lifestyles, you get people getting diseases that were more associated with the Western World like strokes or bleeding in the brain. Unfortunately, this happened recently with the wife of one of our IEBC commissioners, Mr. Letangule. Going through what was appearing in the papers, she had high blood pressure in pregnancy; I am made to understand that, that is what happened to the unfortunate lady. That sometimes can turn out to be a very serious emergency. I do not want to appear like I am lecturing, but let us look at the two health providers in this country. We have the public health or public hospitals. This is where most of our people go to. There is a problem, and I am waiting for the nominee Cabinet Secretary for Health to start work. We must, as a country, now look at our personnel."
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