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"content": "higher level than Level Five. We can judge the operations and the capacity of a hospital to deliver services by its intensive care services and by its emergency services. If these two services are delivered up to standard, then we will know that the hospital is functioning. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, one of the things that, of course, we can see from this report here is the fact that there are inadequate specialists to handle some of the things in the hospitals; for example, there are inadequate neurosurgeons, paediatric surgeons and this is, of course, worrying in that expert knowledge in medicine is not available. Therefore, it is important that we consider using other services like Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) in order to share the experts who are around using telemedicine. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is also important to note that some training goes on within these hospitals, but I do not think it is sufficient enough to improve, especially the in-house training of personnel, medical doctors in the hospital in order to exploit and ensure that the expert knowledge is utilized. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the report has mentioned a few areas in which immunization takes place in some of these hospitals. I think it is important to note that in every case here, there are inadequate supporting physical facilities or even the knowledge to handle vaccines and all the attenuated micro organisms. We know, of course, that these attenuated organisms must, at any one time, remain attenuated, otherwise they can cause serious epidemics in the country. Therefore, it is important that all the hospitals really need to improve on how to handle vaccines in cases of immunizations. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is also a mention of how we dispose of wastes of the hospitals, and the only thing which was mentioned here is waste disposal through incineration. This is not the only way we can dispose of waste in hospitals. In fact, in some cases it is dangerous to incinerate some of the wastes coming from the hospitals because some of them are nuclear products and, therefore, incineration would probably worsen the situation. There are some elements like mercury, which is a waste from hospitals; they are more dangerous in gaseous form and, therefore, incineration is not the way to probably go about it. It is therefore, important that in some of these reports, where incineration is used, that we start looking at other ways in which we can dispose of some of the waste in the hospitals carefully and safely. I think this cuts across all the hospitals which were visited and for which a report has been done. I think it is important that we should, therefore, learn from this report we have here and, probably, improve on some of those areas. Otherwise, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think the report before the House which is going to be deliberated on by the Members of the House contains useful information, some of it has mistakes we are making which, in due course, we shall correct. Therefore, I wish, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, to support the Motion. I do wish Senators would support the adoption of this Motion in the House. With that, I beg to second. Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir."
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