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"content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I am saying the Council will also set standards of competence through committees to investigate individual practitioner’s competence and conduct. The Council will, therefore, secure compliance and enforce standards for physiotherapists in the country. Its purpose, therefore, is to protect, promote and maintain the health and the safety of the public by ensuring proper standards in the practice of the profession. Like I indicated earlier, over 90 per cent of the specialists practicing physiotherapy as a profession undertake it privately, for example, through running individual clinics. Regulations will be introduced by the Council, which the Bill seeks to create. They will be an essential element in guiding such initiatives. The Council will, therefore, work towards the development of the national health by representing the physiotherapy profession nationally and promoting high standards of physiotherapy education, practice, research, support, communication and exchange of information among its members and the general public. By undertaking its role of ensuring the profession collaborates with that of international and national professional organizations related to the profession, this will guarantee compliance to standards beyond the national standards. The benefit of this regulatory body is to actually, ensure that there is equity in standards of physiotherapy services in Kenya. It will also ensure health and safety by ensuring the appropriate delivery of effective high quality services. It will ensure quality of training standards, set in terms of quality and will ensure standardization in qualifications in the profession. It will ensure that there is regulation of physiotherapists which will help sustain the confidence of the public in terms of service delivery. It will also ensure sustained, improved and guaranteed quality services standards while, at the same time, identify and address poor practice in the profession. The Bill is, therefore, expected to assist the physiotherapists in the country and take their services to the standards that are compliant world-wide. This Bill is coming at the right time. I know when you go to other health care providers; they do have their own Acts that actually regulate their practice. For a very long time, the physiotherapists have been practicing without any legal framework as I had earlier indicated. They only had a committee that was actually guiding their practice. I used to practice at Kapkatet District Hospital and teach there. Many of the patients that we used to see, probably, we used to discharge them to go home, so that they can be taken care of while at home. As I speak, I know some of us must have seen a lady from Trans-Nzoia who had an accident when she was around eight or 12 years old and now she is 50-something years old. She has been bed-ridden for over 30 years. I know that if it was not the services of the physiotherapists, I know probably that lady could have had more complications like burns and others. I know also of a good number of cases, from places where we come. But because of patient confidentiality, I do not want to mention their names. But in my village in Chemoiben and Cheborgei, we have very young and old people who have been bed- ridden for a very long time. Somewhere again in Cheplanget, I know we have all those complications. When we go home, a good number of people visit us. They tell us that they have patients who have been bed-ridden for a very long time. If it is not for The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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