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    "id": 590444,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/590444/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen.Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, first I thank Sen. Wangari for bringing this very important issue to the Floor. I want to seek a clarification from the Chairman. The Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentist Act that governs the subject that he is answering to is an Act of Parliament that was passed way back in 1978. In that Act, Section 22 provided for penalties for unregistered and unlicensed persons practicing medicine. Those are the quacks he is talking about. The penalty is as partly as Kshs10,000 regardless of the offense or a jail term of one year. Could the Chairman assure this House that this Committee will proactively take up this Act, liaise with the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board and review it to meet the changing times to deal with quacks firmly and sternly, including publishing their pictures and names in daily news papers, so that they are named and shamed, to the level where they cannot masquerade as doctors anywhere and everywhere? Finally, if you can allow me to talke about the serious case that happened in Busia county where the distinguished Sen. Amos Wako comes from. Were the children who were injected and suffered server paralysis injected by quacks or negligent medics, and in either case has a any criminal culpability been apportioned to those negligent doctors or nurses who injected those children?"
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