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    "id": 592206,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/592206/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Oyugi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 444,
        "legal_name": "Augostinho Neto Oyugi",
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    "content": "within the meaning of the Health Bill. That is the reason the Committee on Health agreed to let this Bill be moved. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this Bill seeks to do a couple of things. The first one is that there are people in charge of health records in hospitals. A person who falls sick and goes either to a private or public hospital first engages with a health practitioner. What the health practitioner does is to take ones’ details like age, epidemiology, health history and things like those. That then constitutes your health record for purposes of future reference, or the prescription to be given. That cadre of people, who have been doing this important job, has never been regulated. It has been left to all and sundry and so we have had people who are not professionally regulated performing the work of health information managers and health record keepers. Then, you end up with cases like the one we had in Busia and a couple of other places, where people were given wrong injections because records were not properly kept. Essentially, you end up with people being given treatment that they do not warrant. Therefore, this Bill deals with the training of records and information managers. At present, there is only one institution, the Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) that has been offering training and is officially recognised. But, we appreciate that several institutions have come up and are now giving medical-related training over the last couple of years. Several universities are now offering medical-related training. Whereas, it used to be only the KMTC giving this training, it is now possible to set a curriculum to regulate whoever provides this training. That is one of the things this Bill seeks to provide. The second thing---"
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