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    "id": 498680,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. G. G. Kariuki",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 330,
        "legal_name": "Godfrey Gitahi Kariuki",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. This is a very straight forward Motion although it is stressing more on private practitioners and doctors without talking of the services. You can have very good doctors or personnel, but they may not have facilities that will give them the ability to do what they are supposed to do. The issue of services ought to have been part of this Motion. If doctors are leaving the county governments to go to private hospitals, personally I have no problem with that. The reason for them to find opportunities in private hospitals is because of the shortage of doctors. If we have more doctors in this country, doctors will work better than they are working today. The current shortage has created a lot of excuses. That is what the Government and the county governments need to look at. They need to make sure that the shortage of doctors is no longer allowed to go as it is. The purpose of educating men and women is to serve the whole nation and even outside the nation. There can never be boundaries between Kenya and Uganda for professionals. If somebody gets a well paying job in Uganda, he has a right to cross the border. Nobody is trained because he wants to die for you or for the members of the public; such people are very few, if any. Medical practitioners are employed and they are just like any other professionals. So, we need to find out why we are in this situation. We should ask ourselves a few questions; before devolution, did we have enough doctors? The way we are talking now, it is as if a situation has arisen which no one knew about. But I want to assure you that we had this problem where you and I come from; we never had sufficient medical personnel. It is not just medical personnel, even the structures to give these people the opportunity to treat men and women were not sufficient. But now, in the same area we have come from, we find three men or women in one hospital bed waiting to be helped. This is a major issue than the doctors themselves. We need to facilitate the few doctors that we have; they need to feel comfortable with the 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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