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"speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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"content": "legs and the doctors mis-join the operation. Such people walk out of hospital with a limb two inches shorter. Those people are entitled to redress where such cases happen. Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to urge the Senate that we devolve these facilities down to the counties. We are not encouraging patients to handle their doctors with suspicion; that every doctor is capable of taking you the wrong way. But where it happens, the law should be very firm and clear, and come down hard on such erring professionals. It is the only way that we can instill sanity and professional conduct in the profession. You have heard many leaders complaining. If you go to district or public hospitals, you will find that there is no medicine. You are attended by a doctor who then tells you where to go and buy the medicine and the chemist is his. The drugs that you buy are Government drugs taken from public hospitals to private chemists, to be sold to members of the public. I have also seen, in the villages, cases where you go to see a doctor and he, all of a sudden, becomes very busy and tells you that if you want, you can been attended to in his private clinic in the evening, where you have to go and pay. He may treat you well, but he is still misconducting himself by cheating the public and Government on time and many other things, because he is employed and earns a salary from the Government to treat people. Why would you decline to treat me in a Government clinic and transfer me to your private clinic and charge me exorbitantly? Even if you treat me well, you have still offended public conscience. This is what we should be fighting. This is the bad Kenyan style that we are fighting. We must change things being done in a manner that we say, “we are used to this”. I heard Sen. Bule referring to Prof. Anyang’-Nyong’o on radio as I was driving here that he is a “doctor of hospitals”. These “doctors of hospitals” must be brought to order, just like all other professions are bringing their people to order. You remember, I will give this as an example, there was an architect who designed a building on Ronald Ngala Street and he caused a building of ten storeys, without adhering to modern technology, to be built in less than one month. The building collapsed, killed people and I was happy when the engineers struck him off. The architectural association struck him off the role of architects. So, each profession has a duty to make sure that the public gets what they expect from you as a professional. Consequently, I fully support this Motion that we need to devolve this watchdog facilities down to the counties so that we are able to help people. If developed areas like Kiambu, that are the envy of everybody, are suffering, the stories we are being told by---"
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