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    "id": 389185,
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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": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Let me carry on as the Motion was before; but I am also anticipating that some amendments will be done, but I will not mention it here. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as a medical practitioner, I am personally saddened by the suffering that is currently being caused by the medical practitioners to the populace of the country. I am even more saddened because of the number of cases that are arising and also the severity of some of these cases which the medical practitioners are subjecting wananchi to . Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is a very serious thing and we know that some of the cases are very serious. As we are today here, I would probably like to remind Senators of the very sad case that we saw in Bungoma Hospital, where a lady delivered on the floor under the watch of medical personnel and she was subjected to ridicule and abuse as she was being subjected further to negligence. I thought this was the lowest that the medical practitioners could go in this country, and I thought it is important now that a law or a system is put in place which can pick up these issues at the outset. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am saddened further because one of the bodies that did not make any response at all was the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board (KMPDB). It was all left to the members of the press to address the issue. It is in this light that I really think that---"
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