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    "id": 491374,
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    "speaker_name": "September 24, 2014 SENATE DEBATES 52 Sen. Kisasa",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I would like to thank Sen. Karaba who is my chairperson and Dr. Boni Khalwale who is my doctor. This is a very valid Motion. I would like to go the medical way and urge the Government to continue supporting our health institutions. When we think about the causes of disability we find that most of the cases occur during pregnancy period when a mother does not get the right food or may be the mother is given the wrong drugs and undergoes other stressful conditions. So we must stop doing postmortem in this country. We must go head on and find why we are having those characters. Why are we having increased numbers of disabled children? During pregnancy the mother undergoes a lot of stress and the baby can also be stressed. Madam Temporary Speaker, during pregnancy, you find that most of the time instrumental deliveries can be done or forceps deliveries and even sometimes ignorance from the medical personnel. I would really urge our Government to take care of our human resource, because the nurses or the medical personnel are never satisfied in this country. That is why we normally have brain drain. Most of our very able doctors and nurses are leaving our country. We end up not having the right personnel to take care of our pregnant mothers in our country. After delivery, the women undergo a lot of stress because our men are also not taking care of us. They keep on denying what we are carrying for them. I would really urge that we do proper prenatal care, proper pregnancy care and proper post natal care. Apart from the human resource, I would urge we supply the right drugs and equipment to our hospitals. We must have the right personnel. It is sad that we have untrained nurses who are conducting deliveries in our hospitals. Even the traditional birth attendants must go through certain training. We must we ensure our mothers are safe so that we get healthy babies. It takes long to raise a normal baby. It also takes a long struggle for a mother to deliver a baby. Women should feed well during pregnancy because they lose a lot of blood during delivery. This can even cause a lot of mental retardation to these children. The mothers prenatally are also not taken care of because they do not even know what to expect. We should even urge more male nurses to enroll because they are more caring and friendly to women during delivery. We should enroll more male nurses because normally as you know unlike poles normally attract, not in the bad way, but they listen and they really take care of us. I remember when I carried my first baby I did that before my training. It was very bad experience because I was asked how much water dripped, but I did not know which water they were talking about. It is very good to have nurses who are also mature and have gone through the training before they go and conduct the deliveries. We have very young nurses who do not even know what to expect. They are normally in the labour ward and they think going through labour is part of fun. They do not even know what to expect. They should also go through that labour pain, the labour period, and also the delivery so that we have mature nursing personnel. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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