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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Prof) Nyikal",
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    "content": "stroke or severe lung illness, that brings the body function back to normal. Without it, even with treatment and recovery, many people will not be able to function as they were before. Because of that, this is an extremely important area and people who train in it end up in other countries. Again, there are many people who pretend that they can function as physiotherapists. This Bill indicates the complexities of the health sector where we have many areas; clinical medicine as we know it, surgery, nursing, laboratory medicine, pharmacy, speech therapy and psychology and psychotherapy. Therefore, there is need to actually have very clear guidelines on regulation. This Bill, therefore, is timely because it deals with registration so that not everybody will walk around saying he or she is a physiotherapist. We also give standards for the training so that we know the entry requirements, the areas to be covered during training and the curriculum to be covered. I think there is need to find out if there would be conflict with the Universities Act. It is important that when people practise, they practise in a standard known way, so that people do not come up with all sorts of practice that would affect the people they are supposed to help. It is also important that even if people are trained and they have the skills, there has to be laid down way of practising. The council also provides for licensing on an annual basis. I concur with the speaker who said that we have to look at more areas of funding. I am a member of the Committee and I think that is something important that we will pass on to the Mover, who is our colleague. You have seen in the last few months we have gone through the one for psychologists and we know there is one for nursing, an Act for medical practitioners and dentists, Pharmacy and Poisons Act, another one for radiotherapists and so on. It is important that all these various disciplines of health are regulated individually. In the near future, it will be very important to get an encompassing Bill or Act that will take all these into consideration. Otherwise, we will have a lot of fragmentation. But at this point in time, I do support that the various disciplines come with individual acts so that when we are doing the major Act, we will be guided on what to do. We will have done the detailed work that will be needed for the major Act. With that, I support this."
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