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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mututho",
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        "legal_name": "John Michael Njenga Mututho",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. In moving this Bill on Tuesday, this week, I did indicate that it was important to consult. I do confirm to the House that I have consulted very widely today under the able chairmanship of the Departmental Committee on Health and the following parties did attend and made their contribution, all of them agreeing on the way forward. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the parties that I consulted were the Ministry of Medical Services, the Ministry of public Health and Sanitation, the Commission for Higher Education, the Kenya Medical Training College, the University of Nairobi, Kenyatta University, Moi University, Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, the National Nurses Association of Kenya and the Kenya Progressive Nurses Association. All of them agreed that this amendment is long overdue. It is long overdue because from 1991 when the then Minister for Health indicated that nurses can engage in private practice, there has not been any substantive legislative move to ensure that this is done harmoniously and in harmony with the existing statutes. The Nursing Council of Kenya (NCK) was established under Cap.257 of 1983 with the core mandate of, among other things, regulating and licensing of nurses. Over time, and I want to emphasize, it has become necessary to make sure that we have nurses of a particular cadre that are properly enlisted, having satisfied certain requirements to avoid quacks calling themselves nurses, doctors et cetera . The situation in the country right now is not very friendly. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that we are 50 per cent--- All the nurses that we require currently, based on the registers are at 50 per cent. This means that we need to fast-track this legislation process because there are many of them from various institutions, like I have mentioned earlier, who would like to be registered but cannot be registered for that particular reason."
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