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    "speaker_name": "Hon. F.K. Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "football. I had a friend who got injured. Somebody whom we thought was a physiotherapist, who was attached to the team, did the wrong thing. So, the Mover has done well to bring this Bill to the House because, first, we are now looking at the standardised way of doing this; secondly, we want to be sure of the quality of physiotherapy; thirdly, we are, of course, going to have specific training in universities and some medical institutions. Therefore, we expect that trained personnel will be deployed to various clinics in the rural areas, where we will all benefit. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, apart from that, with this kind of body around, there is going to be confidence. We have the dentists’ body in the medical cycle. We have the lawyers’ council. So, we have some council in which we will have recourse in case something goes wrong. Therefore, this is a very good Bill, and we should all support it because it is very timely. I had a friend who had suffered a stroke. When you have a stroke out there, or you have a backache, you just walk into a clinic where you expect to get treated. Sometimes it takes months and years for you to get treated because the person who is treating you is not trained. Since it is a medical centre, you just walk in hoping that you will get a physiotherapist. With this kind of law, we are going to have specific clinics for physiotherapy. The service is good because I know of a friend of mine who had been bedridden. He went to some Chinese clinics, one of which is on Kimanthi Street. Within a very short time, after having suffered a stroke, he got treated. So, for this kind of treatment, we need to have centres specifically for this kind of treatment. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, last but not least, the fact that some people are being taken out of the country for physiotherapy means that the service is very important. I had two Harambee events in my constituency to raise money for sending somebody to India for simple physiotherapy. Therefore, this Bill is very timely. Instead of us spending money to seek treatment in foreign land, we will have professionals to take care of our patients. India and the Republic of South Africa have been beneficiaries of this treatment. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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