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    "id": 42341,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang-Nyongo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Medical Services",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 193,
        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
        "slug": "peter-nyongo"
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, every year we get applications from about 10,000 Kenyans to enter Kenya Medical Training Colleges to train as nurses, but we only take about 2,000. That means that 8,000 Kenyans are being disappointed every year. At the same time with an extreme shortage of nurses we need a total of 67,000 nurses in the public sector. We only have some 26,000. So, the shortage is very big. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I hope that we will vote more money to the health sector, so that we can train more nurses. My Ministry is very ready to open more Kenya Medical Training Colleges (KMTCs) to train more nurses. Hon. Members have made proposals. The Director of KMTC and his Board are very ready to visit any facility and make suggestions as to how we can establish more facilities for training nurses in our nation. Likewise, I have said that we need at least medical schools in this country, both in the public and private sectors. At the moment, we have only eight medical schools, which means we have a big shortage of training facilities for training manpower for the health sector to serve in both the public and private subsectors. I am saying this because one of the observations that have been made is lack of morale amongst nurses in our hospitals. This comes from being overworked. Since nurses are very few, they work two shifts. This is also as a result of lack of continuous training or in-service training, because they cannot afford that time. The changes we are making give more support in terms of budgetary allocation to the health sector. This will, obviously, make sure that the ills that this Bill is trying to cure will be less and less in future in the health Ministry. With those remarks, I beg to congratulate and support the Mover of those amendments."
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