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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I think what he has just said passes for a point of information. But if, indeed, it is not the Jubilee Government’s choice, then how come it was the Cabinet Secretary of the Jubilee Government who tabled those budgetary estimates in the House? If he is confirming that it is not the Jubilee Government, then, please, tell them to go and find that devil that is introducing this plan in the economy of this country because it is not in any way beneficial to Kenyans. But I thank him for the information. Madam Temporary Speaker, I would like to disabuse the notion that has been propagated by some of my colleagues here, almost to the extent of casting aspersions on the doctors and nurses. The doctors and nurses of Kenya are some of the best professionals in the world as evidenced by the fact that if you go to hospitals in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Botswana, South Africa and Australia, we have a whole plethora of our medical doctors and nurses working there. We should be grateful to them. The reason they are there is because we do not have a visionary leadership; a leadership that can think that we can retain a medical professional on a meager salary that we should be paying to goat herders in other countries. The Senator of Nakuru County has a raised a very important point and I hope somebody listened to him. You cannot expect Nakuru and Kakamega County to benefit from this Motion in its present form. In fact, those of us who come from Kakamega County will be approaching this by begging for listenership from the system on the need for us to convert the former Kakamega Provincial Hospital into a teaching and referral hospital, so that the pressure on that hospital can be removed by creating Level 5 hospitals in Butere, Mumias, Lugari, Malava and Malinya towns. Each hospital in those towns can be left for purposes of training and handling specialized problems. Madam Temporary Speaker, I cannot sit down without commenting on a trend that seems to be emerging in this country as evidenced by the remarks of Sen. Kagwe. There seems to be an attempt to start victimizing and punishing doctors for mistakes that lead to deaths of patients in hospitals. A doctor who has been trained at the School of The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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