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    "id": 502740,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/502740/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mwaura",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13129,
        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Bill. I think it is very timely particularly because most users of physiotherapy happen to be persons with disabilities, especially those who are survivors of accidents and young children who have to be rehabilitated for them to regain some ability to walk. This is a very timely Bill because even the way in which the welfare of physiotherapists has been, it has not been very good. They have not been properly recognised. I am sure this opportunity that presents itself in terms of organising physiotherapy professionally will also see to it that our professionals in this category are able to also acquire new technology. If you look at what they are able to accomplish and what is being trained in the country, I want to say it is not necessarily at per even concerning the equipments they are supposed to use. I think there will be that greater voice because they are not just going as technicians who just do support work for the medics. I think they spend a lot of time with persons with disabilities. They are actually even involved in the ways in which activities of daily living are classified and how people should actually be given opportunity to exercise that in terms of workplace ergonomics. I think this is very timely and I would want to say that it is a very good Bill. I want to congratulate the Mover of the Bill and the Departmental Committee on Health because this profession, for a very long time has also been left out to quacks. I think also---"
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