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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki",
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Muriuki Ngare",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me a chance to say a few words in support of this very important Motion. The Motion is asking for the establishment of public health complaint boards, specifically so that rights violations by medical personnel can be documented and, hopefully, also be acted upon. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Motion itself is quite wide. I think I would like to take the few minutes I have to also attempt to go a bit further in this Motion and look at what these issues are. In my view, I think the Motion is quite loaded and some of the issues are really quite diverse. For example, I think that wrong diagnosis emanates from wrong training. I think it has something to do with lack of knowledge and experience. Maybe carelessness emanating from wrong training which then ends up in wrong diagnosis. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is also the issue of, for example, detention of patients because they have a pending bill. We do not have any incidents of the Government either disciplining or, in any way, affecting the persons in charge of hospitals or dispensaries who detain patients who did not pay. This would mean, therefore, that the Government actually condones detaining patients who do not pay. Otherwise, we should be having instances where the Government took some disciplinary measures against the persons in charge of hospitals who detained patients. So, this is a separate issue where, whether it is the national Government with their Level Six and Level Five hospitals. Perhaps the county governments will need to look at this so that the issue of payment for medical treatment is looked at from a monetary point of view; who is actually paying? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Motion also talks of mistreatment, which, in my view, emanates from training because you can, obviously, see that the kind of mistreatment which is meted to a citizen, especially like the Motion says “the rural poor” or even if it is the urban poor, I think, it is the same. You go to public hospitals and you find the kind of attitude that you have with medical personnel is really very bad. Sometimes you go to private hospitals – the more higher and lucky ones in society – and The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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