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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Dawood",
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        "legal_name": "Abdul Rahim Dawood",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Article 43(1)(a) of our Constitution says: “Every person has a right to the highest attainable standard of health, which includes the right to health care services, including reproductive health care”. Article 43 (2) says:- “A person shall not be denied emergency medical treatment”. My Motion is with regard to ICUs which I believe are lacking in our country. Last week, I spoke with the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Health. They were supposed to ask me to move an amendment to change it to counties but I cannot see them here. So, I will just move what I have. Intensive care medicine is a medical speciality which focusses on the management of critically ill patients. Critical illness is described as a general state which may arise from various medical pathologists. It may lead to impairment of vital and single organ failures. The majority of the critically ill patients in less developed countries, harbouring two-thirds of the world’s population, do not have access to intensive care. The ICUs cater for patients with severe life threatening illnesses and injuries which require constant, close and invasive monitoring and support from specialists, equipment and medication in order to ensure normal bodily functions. They are staffed by highly trained doctors and critical care nurses who specialise in caring for seriously ill patients. Common conditions which are treated in the ICUs include trauma, multiple organ failure and sepsis. Patients may be transferred directly to an ICU from an emergency department if required, from a ward if they rapidly deteriorate or immediately after surgery if the surgery is very invasive and the patient is at high risk of complications. On the other hand, blood transfusion is generally a process of receiving blood products into one’s circulation intravenously. Transfusions are mainly used for various medical conditions to replace lost components of blood. Early transfusions used whole blood. However, modern medical practise commonly uses only components of blood such as red blood cells, white blood cells, plasma clotting factors and platelets. The Blood Donor Day was celebrated on 14th June this year. The motto for the blood donation normally is: “Give freely, give often. Blood donation matters.” The theme for this year was: “Thank you for saving my life.” Blood donors are either voluntary unpaid, family replacements or paid. Blood groups are normally AB and O. From the forgoing articles of the Constitution, it behoves the National Assembly to make sure that the Government facilitates the setting up of ICUs and blood transfusion units in each and every constituency if not the counties. I am aware that the health function is devolved to the counties and yet many counties lack the capacity. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, you had brought a Motion to that effect in the morning although you withdrew it. I hope you will bring it again. The health system in the counties is in a pathetic state and almost grinding to a halt. Lack of funds and the resulting scarcity of drugs and other items as well as shortage of medical personnel together with medical personnel who are chased away because of not being from the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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