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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Murgor",
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        "legal_name": "James Kipkosgei Murgor",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you for allowing me to contribute and also second this Physiotherapists Bill that was brought by hon. Sang. Physiotherapy or physical therapy is a field which assists in many diseases worldwide. Physiotherapists assist in areas of neurological diseases such as strokes and I am sure most Members have seen people who have suffered strokes and are paralysed on one side. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it also deals in areas of most muscular skeletal diseases such as arthritis and chronic back pain which I think they carry out a good job. In areas of heart diseases such as in patients who have had heart attacks, it is physiotherapists who usually rehabilitate these patients. There are a lot of respiratory diseases such as asthma where physiotherapists play a big role. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, in patients who have had surgery or have delivered, it is usually physiotherapists who rehabilitate these patients to avoid cases where patients develop clots and of course experience sudden death from what we call embolism. There are patients who are quite sick and normally they are bedridden. These patients can easily get what we call bed sores and it is physiotherapists who work on these patients to avoid such things. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Physiotherapists Bill, 2013 seeks to establish a regulatory body and bring order to this profession. The Bill seeks to establish the Physiotherapy Council of Kenya which will be tasked with control, supervision, training and practice of physiotherapy. It will also set up minimum qualifications for persons intending to train as physiotherapists. Now, training alone is not enough to make one competent to practise physiotherapy. So, the council will be tasked to register those whom they think can actually carry out the profession of physiotherapy. They will set examinations and supervise as is the case with doctors. They enroll for internship for one year and from then they can be registered as doctors. Similarly, physiotherapists will have to undergo some form of training or supervision for them to be registered as physiotherapists. Another task which, of course, the Physiotherapists Council will be given is that of maintaining a register of persons who have been registered as physiotherapists and also approve institutions to train physiotherapists. For example, for a university in this country which wants to establish a medical school, first of all the Kenya Medical and Practitioners Board will have to see the syllabus and also the equipment and facilities in that institution before establishment of that institution. So the Physiotherapists Council will have to approve the institutions which are going to carry out this training and at the same time annual licensing of physiotherapists like other professions like law, medicine, engineering and so forth. 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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