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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Dawood",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Abdul Rahim Dawood",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. From the outset, I wish to support this Bill and congratulate hon. Sang for bringing it before this House. But there a few issues in the Bill which probably he needs to look at. Section 20 says that person from overseas cannot be allowed--- but I can see under Section 21, they are allowed. How do you satisfy the council when you have already been on training for a year? In Section 21(2)(b), it says “…has engaged in physiotherapy practice under the supervision of a physiotherapist registered by the Council for such period, being not less than six months, as the Council may approve” Those training in Kenya are required to take one year. How is that? That needs to be checked because the training which is done in Kenya would be sufficient, if it is for one year. Even overseas training should be the same and we need to look at that. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, when talking about annual practising certificates, all certificates expire on 31st December of the year they are issued. What if you apply just before the end of the year? You will get your certificate and then reapply for renewal because every certificate expires on 31st of December. According to me, renewal should be for one year and it should not end on 31st of December. When I look at the Bill, there is nothing in it regarding indemnity insurance. By the way, physiotherapists do their work and they could be liable to doing things which may not be in the patient’s favour or may injure the patient. I think there should be indemnity insurance so that they are protected as well if they are taken to court. But basically I think it is a good Bill which seeks to regulate physiotherapists and to bring them to the ambit of the council so that if there are unscrupulous people who do not profess the physiotherapists Act; if it is like the Hippocratic Act, we needed that to be controlled. I think for a few of these things I will be speaking to the Mover of the Motion and from that we can take it up."
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