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    "content": "For the last ten years, the population of clinical officers and nurses in this country has been dwindling in the public sector. What has brought about this situation? Important of them all has been the inability by the Government, in the guise of lack of resources, to recruit the required numbers. We train these professionals. I move this Motion with a very heavy heart, because we talk about building the capacity of the youth to enable them get jobs, but we do not employ those who have already acquired technical skills. Some of them leave high school at the age of 18 years and train for three years as clinical officers but they reach the age of 30 still looking for Government jobs. If you are trained as a clinical officer, the only place you can be employed is in a hospital. The number of private hospitals in this country is very small. So, these people look forward to being absorbed by the Government of Kenya but they are not being absorbed. This is causing not only a serious shortage of medical personnel but we are putting our active human resource into jeopardy. Instead of being employed, they have long moved on to selling mandazi, eggs and such things because they are not getting the right places to work. We expand training facilities, spend money on training, and invest in this area, but we do not use the product of our institutions. No wonder our clinical officers and nurses migrate to serve elsewhere. If you go to the United States of America (USA) and Europe, you are told that Kenya trains some of the best nurses in the world. However, when they go to work in those countries, they do not give nursing services. They change diapers for old people. These are people who have the capacity to serve this country adequately, but they have now been reduced to wiping faeces off older citizens of other countries while our own people continue to suffer because we cannot afford to recruit nurses."
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