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    "id": 379178,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Lesan",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Wilfred Rottich Lesan",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, we should amend this Motion so that the existing bodies are involved considering that it is not only doctors who offer medical services. There is a nurse, a laboratory technician, a radiologist and a pharmacist involved and each of those professional bodies are governed by a regulatory body that registers each of those cadres. Those cadres on the floor of the hospital work together, criss-crossing each other and any of them can actually cause a medical misdiagnosis or some malpractice. Therefore, it is important that all those bodies as well are devolved to the counties so that they can monitor this board. Unless we do that, it is probably going to be unconstitutional, or this body that we are going to set up is going to be illegal because it is not going to be governed by the laws that we have set. Therefore, I suggest that if we have to go this way, we will have to amend this Motion so that we give more powers to the Medical Practitioners and Dentist Board, Cap.253 or the nursing council or the laboratory technicians council so that we can have a body and functions extended to the counties so that they can perform according to their stipulated legal mandates because they are already there rather than setting up a body that will not have teeth and might not perform. 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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